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Ethereum is making some surprises move and it has over take ripple again in terms of market capitalization.  It is also good for ethereum hodl as the downward trend seems to affect ethereum more than any other coins in the market.  Ethereum was having a very large market capitalization before and it has never been competition with ripple throughout 2017 were we have great bullish trend but since last year it started to compete with ripple. It is currently around $121 and has made +2% today. 

It's not surprising anymore if Ethereum takes over CMC's 2nd spot and other same platforms. And I'm expecting if Ripple starts to overtake Ethereum's market cap again, we'll see people here are going to quick in posting that sudden overtaking.

These are well known for taking each other's place so don't caught surprise if this can happen again in the future. But we'll see more of their action once there's already a confirmation that we're really in a bull run.

Daily and weekly charts for eth look bullish so my personal long targets are also high for eth/btc my targets are 0.08 to 0.1 btc per eth and for eth/usd my targets are 500 to 800 and i think good times are going to come soon for eth.

Etherum taking second position on coinmarketcap is not really what matters to be frank
I want a better price and more adoption in a legal manner not just fake icos

Market cap alone is a bad indicator to assess a project. A better indicator is the demand in relation to the market capitalization. Ripple is a good example. The number of available coins is deliberately short. A big part of all coins are hold by few founders. The scarcity drives the price. Ethereum has a better distribution.

Excitement about nothing? Yes, today it gets back to 2nd place, tomorrow ripple can get back once again. The fact that ripple dismissed ethereum from the second place for such a long time is a very bad sign for ethereum. And the tendency will be strengthen in future.

Yes. This is true. Now we just need to wait a little and the price will go up again.

The advantage of ETH is that it is more than a Cryptocurrency to speculate in the market, the interesting thing about ETH It is also a programming language code to develop ecommerce systems, that makes it much more global.

Ethereum allows developers to create small smart contracts in the blockchain. Such pieces of code are self-contained and define the agreements between multiple parties. We can make micropayments instantly if the conditions for which the agreement was created are met.

Smart contracts can be used in a wide variety of scenarios. They are ideal for simple transactions, in whose parts they should be bound to a set of verifiable requirements by the network, both within the blockchain and external variables through APIs.

More programmers = More and better developments = More happy users.

Etherum can be used to create other Tokens that use the ICO to later become Cryptocurrency and that is why it is very popular in the world of Cryptos.

Everything that happens is normal, cryptocurrencies need to go down and pop out the bubble after
it soared so high and flies again after that:)

This is normal, I'm not surprised, as usual, Ethereum is the best coin after Bitcoin and I think ETH is still a favorite of cryptocurrency users. Like we know Ethereum has a very good platform, so if Ethereum slumps again, I think ETH will easily improve its position :)

It does not surprise me that it happened again. I assume that this will happen very often this year. The fight for second place between ripple and ethereum will certainly last a long time.

Yes, ethereum has taken his position again at number 2. But I think this is no longer a surprise, I think ethereum is indeed better than Ripple.

I don't think ripple is that strong, i feel like people are just buying for the hype rather than the product, if you compare the volume of 1 - 5 top coins ripple have the lowest out of them, Ethereum is much a stronger coin compare to ripple in general, i don't really hear people using the product of ripple.

Ethereum place in the cryptocurrency market is in second place,and it has held that position for quite some time now, though for a while now ripple has taken that spot for a short period of time,amd I think that will continue as ripple are really pushing hard and developing their coin greatly.
But for now ethereum's place is in second spot,the demand for the ethereum is quite higher and it's at the moment a better investment opportunity than ripple for now

XRP can only pass temporarily, XRP will never be able to occupy the No. 2 position in coinmarket for a long time. It is the location for ETH, king of ICO and altcoin. And I was not too surprised when ETH took his 2nd position

it seems that the ethereum trend is undergoing a huge increase, I saw in a few days ago ethereum at a price of $ 107, now it is at $ 123, and this is proof that ethereum is not dead yet, I believe that in 3 or 4 months there will be a more significant increase.

It's not so bad as you said consider all depend on the trend. Ripple has a problem with the total marketcapitalization which some people are thinking if that was not real marketcap of ripple.
That's not a big problem whatever ethereum placed in number 3 or 2

The position in the market is changing daily so it is not surprising that today ETH is in 2nd position and next day you will XRP is taking over. So the main change should be off price movement like now ETH price is also moving but within some days the seller will start to sell and take profit and the price will start to move down. So it is not still in bullish trend.

I think Ripple will keep growing for a longer time. Although ETH is used by many people, ETH has many uncertainties. I will always have Ripple in my investment plan.

I concur. Although it is good to see ETH at number two, I would also prefer more developments in the platform. I cannot wait for the hardfork and the eventual launch of ethereum 2.0 I hope there will be no more delays

It seems to me that Ethereum began to gain capitalization in connection with the expected hard forks, but now when the next transfer was announced, it is difficult to say what will happen next!

Ethereum is good cryptocurrency after than bitcoin
 So since 2015 market had top coins too low. Bitcoin and ethereum are good major coins more than XRP. i saw xrp price up trend begun in 2017 and market capital also up since thats period. But ethereum always going journey with bitcoin market.

Ethereum fork, which is expected to take place in 27, is affecting the price. I think a fork will take place that will affect our investments too. We look forward to the future of the ethereum and tokens in its network.

Ehteruem have indeed faced a lot of challenges intern of it market price and the market capitalization even against ripple who have meet up with etheruem and overtaken it since 2017 till the present moment when ETH recovery took place the fact is since of altcoins run on the etheruem blockchain the downtrend will continue to come up occasionally due to the fact that most of this tokens easily get dump and that is affecting ETH market greatly.

there is nothing surprising when a pump and dump coin gets pumped and dumped :D

it is not the downtrend affecting ethereum price, it is the fact that ETH price solely depends on ICO scams and as they slowly have been dying over the past year the price of ETH died with them.

there is no competition, it is just people who are bored with the dumps who are trying to come up with strange things like this to put some spark in the market ;)

Why you discuss 2 percent growth after a 98 percent drop? in the update of Ethereum yesterday again found vulnerability. I still think that the price of Ethereum will continue to fall and only when there will be technological development - then it will be possible to talk about growth

Hope it won't be delayed like the previous time. If the hard fork is successful, then surely the price of ETH will increase very high and it will create a big enough distance for XRP

It is true that Ethereum has hit hard due to continued bearish trend for the past one year, despite that i believe it is a very good project and most ICOs have been using ethereum platform for their project.

ETHEREUM will always be popular as it was the first protocol in blockchain technology that unleashed the world of the smart contract and dapp arena and helped many businesses and start ups really go to town in the form of ICOS or initial coin offerings. It opened up to the micro investor, venture capitalist and angel investor, a new approach to investing and a new world and way to do business that had not been released before. I think ETHEREUM for now is here to stay and although there may be other blockchains coming on the horizon, ETHEREUM will be close to many people's hearts for a few years to come at least and it may do well again in another bull run. Will it reach it's previous all time high of 1.5k USD? Who knows.

This is when ethereum rises again, maybe people start investing in ethereum because there will be hardfork on the 27th so they only want to profit in the near future.

And who was expecting something else? I do not think that we are waiting for some very new theory or something completely new. You understand that a very large number of people are waiting for this event and many people believe that this will happen this year, so we expect that this will happen soon.

The block reduce has paid attention from the speculators consider less ethereum will have produced by each block in the future, miners get less ethereum and it will decrease the pressure from these miners to the market.
Basically ethereum will be so easy to surpass ripple.

It there is an eventual bull run now, considering the rate at which the market is growing, there will be a sequential rise in the price of ethereum.
There lots of factors contirbuting to both the uptrend and downtrend of ethereum
Considering the fact that ICOs make use of it. It has given it widespread usage, which makes it to be very volatile.

I don't think it will last long, sooner or later the position will be taken over by the ripple again. as long as ethereum is still under $200, we will always look like this.

I think this surprise comes from price speculation about Hardfork later. but if there are more delays, I think ethereum will never come out of the downtrend. predictably during this month there will be a tight competition with ripple because many try to pump ethereum prices to hardfork later.

I'm very happy about it. I have a small amount of ethereum, but I really hope for a huge growth in the future. It should be fixed in second place in the ranking.

Supporters believed that the hardfork will bring more interest to their project, trying to show that they've got the numbers ETH achieved regained it's position the question is how long it will take or how holders will keep trusting the project and wait for the best results, it will revealed after the fork happen if there's continue gaining the spot or it will be overtaken once more.

for now it's good, but as long as ethereum is still not stable we will always see ETH competition with XRP. at this time ethereum is still at the price of $120, if later he falls in his position the ripple will be taken again. so just praying ethereum can be stable at the current price.

not surprising at all. ethereum is 2nd on marketcap for a long time and its just got down just few months ago. The surprising thing is that ripple holds that position that long.
well, lets hope that its the start of the bullrun again.

These two coins could change their market cap positions many times in the future as they are top 2 coins and daily fluctuations are normal. Long term I think ETH will take over the lead.

I think the second place will be changing continuously between Ethereum and Ripple. Because, after the big collapse of Ethereum, it lost the previous high potential and popularity. But when everyone was in loose, Ripple gave investors/supporters a very good profit, and still, XRP's price is very strong! So, Ripple's popularity is being increased! Right now ETH market cap higher than Ripple, but anytime Ripple can take the second place again!
I hope, after the ETH hard fork, Ethereum will book the second place strongly for a long time.

This is very happy, although I had no doubt about it. Ripple was able to overtake ETH due to an artificial price increase and the cancellation of the Constantinople update. Accordingly, such information could negatively affect ETH. But now ETH again began to gradually increase its price and faced the bar of $ 120. I think in a week he'll be able to break through. And also expect a hardfork.

the "second" place has never belonged to one altcoin for long. a lot of different shitcoins in the past 10 years have come and gone whilst taking that rank for some time before they disappear. you can find snapshots of coinmarketcap showing you this throughout the years.

i am afraid it is time for a new coin to take that place now and with ETH hard fork which is going to split it into two different chains we may see that be hastened .

If we extrapolate the tendency we can assume for 99% that ripple will outperform ethereum in future. There is no sense to keep attention if eth on the second place or not. It doesn't worth it.

It was predictable, you did not think that the ethereum was going to give its place to someone else? Of course, for Bitcoin, he is not a competitor, but he also holds his position securely and I do not think that in the near future someone will be able to shift him.

Ethereum is bumping along with bitcoin but the ripple doesn't made any sound so far. Instead of that this coin dumped more in the market. If you wish to invest on this shit ripple kind change the mindset and invest your fund in a right way.
Ripple needs to have special buy and investment to pull back its dump.

I think this road still not finished and ripple will over take ethereum again and will fall afterthat, situation will change several times but at the end I'm sure ethereum will stay winner.

There are lots of competing coins in the crypto space. The main competitor of ethereum now is ripple and this has been happening since 2018. My though now is that, can ethereum still maintain that position for a long time again, without ripple taking over?
If ripple should have any particular and developmental update now, we would see it rise and it could possibly take over the second place again. So also, ethereum needs a major update to continue.

Ethereum will always become the hot topic anytime, the hardfork this coin will give its popularity among the speculators again. So many people are waiting for that and they hope that the hardfork will be running perfectly. Ether gets less inflation means more price at the same time.

I don’t believe that hardfork of Ethereum will take place. if I am right, then Ethereum will suffer very much

It is good to see get back to 2nd spot on the ranking,that is where ethereum belong and it may stay there for a longer time to come

I know this will happen from the beginning when ripple overtook the position of Ethereum on the coin market cap. Ethereum is a very popular project and it has really gained famous all over the crypto enthusiasts than ripple does.

This is quite an expected step, because the prices for ETH began their growth in anticipation of the release of the hard fork, which should be released on February 27, so I think that this should happen and this is a normal movement as a whole.

Now the second race becomes a situation we are used to. Especially when there is a slight decrease in the Ethereum front, the fear of losing the second place is formed, while Ripple develops strategies to win the second rank consistently. Of course, for the time being, while there is no option for the second place, one of these options or another alternative will be the second. The second place will always be a nice and enjoyable race for this market, but if one day there is a race for the first place, the market will be severely heated.

I agree, but only for the next few more months, if not only weeks. Anything can happen of course but Ethereum is finally going to get their full changes end of this month (even if it's delayed yet again maybe March). I'm actually very very surprised that price has been increasing even with the long delay of their upgrades.

But okay, maybe it just becomes an ETH pump, but the same can be said for any Ripple increase... nothing but a centralized pump.

Don't forget too, EOS has enough power to topple both Ripple and ETH, if it wants to. They're all centralized enough to do anything.

that's the excess of ethereum, the market capitalization is stable and keeps increasing so that the ripple returns to lose to etherum.

Why are people surprise about this, if any project is going to displace Ethereum, it is not Ripple, even this year, I do expect the rank of Ripple to go down on the coin market cap, there is one project to watch out for this year and that is BNB tokens, likely to move to top five project this time next year, real use case, DEX launch and expect their ICO launch pad to be a real success

In my opinion, Ethereum is a more innovative and investment-attractive project than Ripple. The fact that the capitalization of XRP was some time higher, does not mean anything. Very soon there will be an update in the Ethereum network and this will help the project to increase the gap from XRP.

I think the development of ethereum prices now is also a good start to raising prices, because ethereum is also an altcoin that has a good position in the future and also many projects from ICO using the ethereum platform.

I just think it is unfair for ethereum to be even compared to ripple to begin with. Ripple is just a shady company that makes deals with banks and financial companies in order to help them decrease their transaction prices and use ripple instead of the old methods and make money that way and people support that coin because all those banks doing all those transactions would be equal to a lot of ripple bought and moved and people bet on that but it is highly decentralized.

Look at ethereum, with its amazingly fast transactions (and cheap) and blockchain that has smart contracts and a lot of utility, ethereum is exactly what an improved and developed bitcoin could look like and we are still trying to show off which one is better, to me the war has been over for years, I would opt for ethereum over ripple any given day.

This is awesome and I truly believe that ETH deserves to be on top of the market. XRP is a good investment instrument, but in my opinion it is not a crypto currency at all. Hope that ETH will grow further after the next update.

The good news is that ETH is now officially overtaken by XRP and its price will increase further because hard-fork of ETH (Constantinople).
now the gap is 1 billion 6 hundred million dollars. This is definitely a great distance for XRP to catch up in a short time.
We should celebrate and wait for the price of the ETH to be pumped in the near future.

Yes and it happened few days ago,ripple is just coin for the losers so people who are holding it getting their money into centralized project they may make their coin worthless by increasing the availability.But I think ripple even don't deserve a place in top 10 market cap coins list so lets kick it out further.

Perhaps you are right, but nevertheless for some reason, users of cryptocurrency are interested in this project. I am very confident about ethereum and I am not happy that the plan fluctuated between second and third place because of the ripples. Nevertheless, I always pay attention to the information, which was that the price for ripples was still artificially increased by the developers themselves, who in general are the main investors in their project. Based on this, they can always realistically manipulate the price in the cryptocurrency market.

With the inclusion of xrp in coinbase pro would this trigger for another pump? 24hr volume incrase morethan 1billion$ an indication that many  traders are buying amd selling xrp and its price is going in uptrend territory.

Many ICOs use Ethereum, but all are garbage. There are not too many successful ICOs to help increase the price of ETH. Even ICO has badly affected ETH and caused it to collapse as it is now

yes it's true that ethereum is back in second place now, of course this is good news that ethereum has great potential and is able to attract many users to continue investing in these coins, I think this altcoin is indeed good for the long term.