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Early this year,  ETH was able to get back on the top 2 position but it looks like XRP is not giving up to prove itself that he also deserve that position, and now XRP succeed on that,

As of January 10, 2019
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Do you believe that many scenario like this will continue to happen until the real bull comes?
Many believe that XRP is not a good one but again this is the top contender of ETH when it comes to positioning and giving good services so watch out for the battle of these two top altcoins while bitcoin is laughing at the top.

I hope in the long run ETH will gain a good margin on XRP, but nobody really knows what will happen in the next few years...

It's meaningless at the moment. They are both excellent projects, but they offer different things and aren't really competing with one another. I think they are both trading well below their true worth, whether in BTC or US$, they both look underpriced.

The only reason ETH can drop below XRP is because of temporary dumping by ICO projects. Long term ETH is gonna prevail and seeing it below XRP is a great signal that it's time to buy.

ETH and XRP is the rivalry among each other. But I think XRP would be the promising coin among all other crypto in long term. This because of XRP is adopted by most of the banking industry all over the world legally. ETH is only sharing its blockchain for the token creator and in the next period of time when the token creation increases the network will be congestion. So, XRP for the second position is very deserving.

There's always going to be fluctuation in crypto and with these major currencies they are some what large enough to sometimes go against the overall market trend and then we see big variation in their marketcap relative to one another. Long term I think ETH will reclaim no 2 spot in this year, it's crashed a lot harder and has the new fork upcoming which could help to increase the price.

ETH and XRP has flipped the number 2 spot between themselves multiple times and probably will happen again in the future also. It is no big deal.

Looking at the level of ambition of Ripple I don't think they are interested in the second position but the first, recently I start to fear for the future of Ethereum, so many things seems to be wrong with the projects and the ICO market that helped to prop the price up is drying up fast and since there is no demand for the tokens it is very hard to bet on the future of the project for now.

Ethereum will soon over take it as the hardfork is coming very close.  I am not disappointed about the current happening as the ethereum holder but I am very confident that ethereum deserve to remain the number 2 cryptocurrencies for a very long time. 
That is the truth and I don't know why that has become a major concern to many of us.  Ethereum is going to perform very well in the future and I don't think the current flipping in market capitalization is a sign of weakness to one coin or another.  We just need to be able to make the right investments to make money from the market.

Last time also we saw similar patterns before the big bullish waves that hit the market intensely and we saw most of crypto assets mooning and providing massive projects to their supporters and investors.

no doubt this will certainly happen this year even more often, that ethereum and ripple swap places. at the moment, it certainly does not mean much, as the price of bitcoin has fallen again.

Yes, because this is just a short term trend, but we still don’t know who will take the spot as they both offer good services that most of the investors love for.

Well, maybe they are not used to see ETH on the 3rd position since ETH holds the top2 spot longer than XRP. Many good speculation about the incoming hardfork with ETH, this can bring hope and opportunity for all of us.

ETH is still on good position, 3rd spot in coinmarketcap is not a sign of a weak coin. Wait for the hardfork and that position with be lock in with ETH. It just 10days after the new year, so there’s still have 355days left in 2019 and ETH will work hard just to end this year on the top spot, i believe and I will continue to hold.

ETH has real use, and proposes a solution / minimal viable product that is bound to last for a very long time, unlike XRP which is bound to banking.
The battle for the second spot won't last for long IMO, the bear market is surely having its influence on the battle too I think. But once the bear market is all over, I can assure you that XRP will be nowhere to be found around the second spot, I'll just let them enjoy their temporary trend while it last.

yep,, but i believe in the long run,, second place is deserve for ethereum my friend
i think we will see xrp and eth scramble the 2nd positions in this Q1 of 2019 until the real bullish coming back to crypto world

This is not the first time XRP did that, a year or a couple year ago. They did it too, whenever we are seeing an extreme bearish market.
XRP will try to take it as their momentum to take 2nd place. But once the trend changes, ETH will eventually take its spot back.

Ethereum supported by the people as 2nd coins of altcoins, it's only their price is going down but their position as 2nd coins of  altcoins is nobody can replace.
Ethereum is use for icos project even if their price are in the drops last year ethereum is always involve in icos project no matter their price is too low in the coin market cap.

Yes, they have been switching places and rallying with that position and for sure if the bull comes many coins will be out of their place. Majority will go at the lower positions and the best would be lifted out.
It is because a centralized coin and I don't have this on my folio.

We will see a battle between ETH and XRP in this year, and they will show their power to get the top 2 positions. I don't mind whoever will be at the top 2 as long as I can take a profit from both ETH and XRP. But both ETH and XRP needs to be careful because of Bitcoin Cash, EOS, Stellar, Litecoin is behind on them, and if they cannot increase the Cap, then the top 2 positions will be replaced again to the other coins. So we will wait and see who's going to be the top 2 positions, it still ETH or it returns to XRP or even the other coin.

ETH and XRP have exchanged the top 2 spot multiple times and will keep doing that. Both coins have good long term future so good to hold both.

The XRP and ETH competitions are indeed exciting, this will make the community continue to maintain the price or sell it, I think eth will remain the prima donna of the altcoin, and investors feel more secure on XRP. The problem of the position is certainly a lot that is targeting so the most important thing is that these two coins still have high trust from crypto lovers.

XRP recently retake the second spot, and it looks like the competition is really getting exciting again. At least we have something to cheer about in this boring market right now. I'm a fan of ETH though, but for those who are a smarter investors, (I'm not saying I'm not), it's good if you can hedge and diversify your portfolio with both and then some bitcoin as well.

I guess for some people who believe XRP will reclaim second place in the cryptocurrency market are those who like the centralized system. And for those who like ETH to stay in second place are those who like the decentralized system.

However, I prefer ETH to be in the second position of the cryptocurrency market, I don't want cryptocurrency to change direction from a decentralized system, it's a very simple reason.

Shortly will be hardfork of Ethereum, so it is more easy to manipulation the price at this point. As we saw yesterday - the price of ETH fell much more than the price of BTC and XRP. I'm sure XRP will not stay in the second position for a long time. Today or tomorrow ETH will jump over XRP.

We saw that this two coin have best compete to each on rank. Sometimes the ripple turn back again to rank while the ethereum down at rank 3 which is good for the ripple investor because the value increasing. Im investor of this two coin and Im looking for the ethereum to increase again to the rank 2 so that's why this coin we can move next to be rank 1 which is near to become the next bitcoin.  But because of this I think for ethereum now to up the price easily but I still believe on it's potential.

Both of these coins do seem to have the enthusiasm to take a position, so this competition is far interesting from bitcoin travel. Each community will continue to maintain its value and eth does not want to deviate from its decentralization system. It will be more interesting every second.

Tight competition between XRP and ETH continues. This is an opportunity to increase the price of the two coins. I think this is a good thing. Hopefully this competition continues.

Its very exiciting to see these coins replacing each other on top, and I agree that it can be more profitable if you hold this coin, diversification should be done also. Looking at the marketcap and bitcoin is still strong.

This is a good competition, i also want to see these for the rest of year and have fun while waiting for some profit taking, bet on this two coins now. 😊

Personally I think XRP is due a price jump. When XRP goes up it goes up quickly, and we haven't seen anything for a while. There is a chance that if ETH can secure the number 2 spot after the Constantinople fork, then people might start to see XRP as being underpriced.

Who knows by the end of the year ethereum will keep and hold the top 2 position with wide margin but for now let's see who will win the race. However in my belief, it is the ethereum that will prevail because of its fork which is happening this January and it will be the banner that will bring to eth to number two  spot.

ye looks like xrp is not giving up for second position what a good competition, but I still believe of ethereum, for me eth is the king of the altcoins.

Ethereum prices suddenly dropped from $ 150 to $ 130 because the price of Bitcoin dropped from $ 4000 to $ 3600. Bitcoin is still in control of the crypto market and this is still a bear season, but many are panicking and taking cutlose because they don't get classic vision even though classic vision is on Ethereum classic network, it explains that Ethereum prices can go down by 10% ($ 150 - $ 130 ) to date.

The crypto movement is still influenced by the value of bitcoin, Eth dropped and almost all altcoins also fell. XRP starts to glance at Eth's position and this competition will continue, so it looks interesting if this competition continues so that seeing the market will not be boring.

if this is a competition then I will choose ETH, no matter how big the ETH will go down I'm sure ETH will beat RIPPLE.
it is true that since last year they have been competing for the position, and at the end of 2017 ripple was in position 2 but only a few moments, then it was reclaimed by the king of ICO.

You're right about ETH and XRP switching the 2 spot on the capital market so many times but I want you to know that the two are not of the same potential in terms of uses and holding for long time because XRP is centralized coins and holding it for long is not a good idea.

Me also, i know xrp have really the potential to take over the top spot but ETH will also not give up to secure that position. The price of eth is just a result of so many scam ICO, and of course we are still in a bear market so just relax because ETH will make us more profitable soon. I will play for long now since ETH will be good at the end of the year, believe on that.

Not much of difference between the two market cap value so it will be staying like these until market goes crazy again in my opinion.I am still wonders why people were investing on XRP since its already old coin and can recognize as centralized cryptos,no crypto enthusiast will support XRP at this position.

I think that ETH and Rippl will long compete for second place in the rating. In any case, both of these coins are worth investing.

It really depends on the people's choice, i don't like the centralized system too. Just take it easy ETH is still on the spot of number 2, no need to worry if it goes 3rd next time. It is just because of the bearish market but looks at it on how it's going to change after the market reaches $4k or higher than that. XRP is able to take the next spot next to Bitcoin when it is too bearish.

Honestly i hate XRP.. this is the new "traditional banK".. this is not decentralized, that is a fact. I will be always stay away from it. On the other side ETH is suffering because probably many ICOs paid their workers and they cashed out for $, after their reward blocking is over (1 year after ICO). Hope it can keep position number #2!

They may flip spots every now and then but Ethereum will end up being the dominant crypto.  Eth has a much higher daily volume than xrp and the eth network handles a lot more transactions.  Ethereum is also used as a trading pair along with bitcoin on nearly every exchanges.  Additionally companies are looking at putting stocks on the Ethereum blockchain which will raise adoption even more.

Indeed, the position can be replaced by XRP but only temporarily, because the community will certainly return to take over and this will continue to happen. Still, ETH is a popular platform and has good performance, there are so many enthusiasts in the market and continue to survive for its quality.

The battle for number two is indeed an interesting one. On one hand we have a platform for developing DAPPs creating tokens out of anything, but on the other hand there is financial giant trying to take on the global payment system. Hard to say who will win

Ethereum is the coin which should be holding that place with ease but the current bear market has being catastrophic to it and it seems the excitement over the hard fork is not as big as I thought it would be, so ethereum is still having problems maintaining that position but eventually once the effects of the reduction in the emission of ethereum are felt in the market we could possibility see an increase in the price and this could allow ethereum to get a solid advantage over ripple.

Eferium cant handle many transactions. If the network is overloaded it cant scale.

Xrp is also used as trading pair along with buttcoin on many exchanges.

Additional banks are going to use xrp in cross border payments.  Even R3 announced it is going to use XRP on its Corda settlement network.

Yuuuge year for XRP coming

Well it's fun to watch,when there is a competition like this the developers or the marketing will work harder, I prefer for eth to sit on the second place because xrp is a centralised coin, eth is a better coin from the transaction speed, but something need to change from eth, the reason it's falling down because many scam ICO using eth, if there is nothing done then eth will slowly lose its position

Definitely right, because for sure it is best competition here in history that two potential coin compete to each other for the ranking.
But ranking will not determine who is better to invest or best to buy it depends on how much the total market of the coins.

Ripple low price and possible to increase the value very high in the future like hundreds upto thousands of dollars.

Ethereum from like ripple price it became 1400 dollars each in the year 2017 but suddenly the value decrease and now is $100 but it still hope the value to up and become the next bitcoin soon.

Hah nice try but eferium is centralised around rainman and friends.

https://ripple.com/insights/the-inherently-decentralized-nature-of-xrp-ledger/     and xrp is more decentralised than buttcoin and eferium.

Lol st transaction speed

While eferium can handle 20-40 transactions a second

XRP can handle 1500 TPS!


Network was never clogged trough high usage but eferiums was clogged

I am not worried about the status of Ethereum. Ethereum is facing an upgrade immediately. This upgrade will make XRP cry. Ethereum is a more valuable coin, and XRP centralized coins are not enough to transcend the value of Ethereum.

Im worried about eferium.  It cant scale... it has a fork every few months, vitalek is a pedo, eferiumalliamce is using a private fork of eferium that doesnt use the publicly traded scamtoken.
Consensys is firing 50% of its staff, the time of lambos and empty promises if over.
 
There is still nobody here who can name me one efereium app that has more than a million users...

What efereium is doing is a  classic show of smoke and mirrors until the dhs arrests vitalek for fraud and security law violations.

I still believe that ETH can make a distance from XRP in the coming months with the implementation of the ethereum fork. Ripple took the second spot last year because of the dumping of ETH and not with the development of ripple that put them on the second place. Now that ETH had returned next to bitcoin, this will take a difficult part on the ripple to come back to that top 2 position without doing a pumping. Anyway it's just ranking and for technology advancement I prefer ETH than Ripple.

the amount is only a little adrift now.

https://i.imgur.com/FuJY7gg.png
This information is obtained from the source: https://coinmarketcap.com/
accessed on: January 12, 2019

Ethereum (ETH) with a total MarketCap of $ 13,278,332,851 and Ripple (XRP) of $ 13,667,445,677
this won't last long. I'm sure Ethereum will return to its position in the next few days.

If people would use something NOT MANIPULATED LIKE THIS HERE

https://forbescrypto.com/crypto


it would be clear to any meth head and buttcoin activist that there is a long way to go for eferium and a short way to catch the first spot from buttcoin ;)

xrp is very speculative coin.
it can be 2nd coin but it wont last long. like bcc's passing of ethereum last year.
ethereum will take 2nd place again.

Lol bak

Eferium is a centralized scam. They cant even fork properly. Scam

This two coins are really dragging on who will remain in the second position in terms of market capitalization. Though I think this did not matter much as we are more concerned of what will happen after the hardfork on 16.  I strongly believe that ethereum will remain the second coins after the hardfork for a very long time.

I don't mind the position, but the coins are of higher quality and each still has strength. Both of these coins look good and volumes that always compete bring the market to look more attractive. But I prefer to invest in Eth.

Lol what the hell your talking about ?  Eth isnt a scam  and its not also centralized because its a crypto and all crypto are known to be decentralized  .

Xrp in a nutshell is also a promising coin with lots of potential to succeed in the future and it can possibly rank the top 2 spot on the coinmarket ranking if ever eth wont recover  .   

As an ethereum holder I'm hoping that it can be stable in number two in rank at the market.But no matter whose in top in rank,the most important is that we are gaining profit of what altcoins that we had.

LMAOOOO plese read trough all the interactions here it appears that there are only bots responding to braindead topics; D

Btw i know for sure that eferium is centralised BECAUSE 70% of mining power is in the hands of a few pools ;) ;) ;)

I would echo those who say it is a good idea to hold both ETH and XRP. There's a reason they're the top two altcoins!

They are both great projects, and they offer fundamentally different use-cases, so if you hold both then you are spreading the risk a bit, it's a small amount of diversification