Why did the price suddenly jump?
I'm not aware of any news, I haven't see any updates for the project but I did look up to my wallet and saw the price keeps growing. I do know the project has the potential which is why I kept the tokens. Seem unusual that a pump will start in some underdog token like this one.

Its what we invest for

People invest to profit just like the businessman who wants return after making some hope for the project success, these investors are wishing it will come true that price will be pumped like last year. Though it may not happen the hope is there and next year is another renewed hope for us until we hit the right year.

The existing banks can easily try to accept and create their own exchange to be relevant, I think this will happen all of a sudden if one bank becomes successful after they offer crypto and fiat banking. Its going to bubble so much once again. They are never going to let themselves obsolete in the finance industry. I think there are already crypto bank projects doing ICO.

If you are a short term investor, you can just do it all the time by buying at every dip of a coin. right now is actually a great time to become a scalper that you'd like to buy and sell and going it everyday because the market is in seesaw. my suggestion is to do it with XRP because its good to have a about $2000 and keep profiting at every spike of its price.

Market is getting good, BTC has maintained its price which it didn't fall below $6k. Right now its also spikes up, this is a good indication that the bulls are getting stronger. It may not be the start of the bull market but just retracing its way it could go dip again so the bull run we we are waiting isn't yet confirmed. Price usually goes up by year end so that gives up hope.

I believe in blockchain. This technology is proven to be one of the most helpful and will be in the future tech.

The problem with helping is that you will suddenly be known and those relatives you see who never really took notice of you will come running to you. You may feel proud of it but when you one day say no, you are not going to be forgiven. People will be talking behind you. I knew this because I experience this myself. I even bought expensive equipment for a relative that isn't close to me, glory is there but after it, nothing. They will even ask for gasoline and maintenance for the machinery.

If you have to give, be anonymous. I think that is more noble than enjoying fame.

Price may come down faster than it spike but it will go up over and over because of the finance institution going to buy XRP for its usage. It will just matter now of whether you want to ride this train or not but this will seriously give a good profit for those who will keep betting on XRP. The speculation of it going more than a hundred may not really happen this year but its going to keep going up.

If you are in need of money, I think you will have to sell at loss but if not you may keep it till is price go up. It happened that I waited for months as well but after the waiting the price didn't go up much so I decided to sell because after all it BTC that keeps rising. If you see the price ain't moving and the team is not giving much information of the progress of the project, let it go. It will only give you stress if you keep asking whats new and monitoring the channels of the team.

They are not just into Mobile data but also roaming market like the bubbletone?

People all over the world are already using mobile, some do even have 2 to 3 phones at hand while on the go. Mobile phones are the future, like me I can't live without it. DENT and Bubbletone will be used, it only needs adoption which will happen soon.

Its not just the cryptocurrency that should be used in this country, blockchain will really be a useful tool for almost every government system. I'm from Philippines and I think Filipinos will agree about the corruption in the country. Blockchain technology might be the solution to solve issues like the election system and accounting system in the government now that FOI (freedom of information) was signed.

ETH and XRP were taking over each other several times in the past so its not surprising already. But for someone who just hold tokens, the position of coins on marketcap doesn't matter its the price. Is ETH that will win we want these two to battle for the position because its ETH that has demand for the people because everyone now needs ETHin their wallet unlike XRP which they haven't had demands except them hyping the news.

ICO trend may slow for awhile until they can find a way to be approved by SEC of the country. Once the team is approved I think they can then do an ICO but this time I think its going to have less scam for they are going to be held liable so they can't get away with millions if they attempt to scam since they are not anonymous anymore.

I use to write articles for the ICO project. If you like writing articles, there are hundred projects that needs article promotion today and there are thousand more project coming which is an opportunity for someone who wants to earn bitcoin every month. You'd have to be very good at it though because you'll get more stake when you can create high quality.

Distributed bounties aren't just the cause of the price getting lesser but is adds the market pressure. You will have to consider that the investors are not just individuals who will hold and wait for the project to be developed. The project isn't up and running yet which is why the developers are asking for the fundings which means there isn't yet some thing that will cause the price to rise up. Its going to be normal for a token's price to depreciate when investors take profit from the bonuses they get upon being an early investor.

Its also one of my biggest investment. Almost 1000x profit I got from XRP because I'm one of those who invested to it since the price was below $0.05. Although it took years of holding, its worth the time taking the profit after several years after it pumped itself up last year. I do have accumulated since that time and those investors to XRP today may once again become richer when all the speculations happen as the project is about to get ripe for adoption.

Miners are part in the consensus, it would be a waste when it comes to the devices manufactured and huge farms invested to these mining devices. If in case they turned into POS, BCH I think will be more profitable for them and a lot might shift to it including the merchants accepting BTC. This is just my opinion but I guess this can happen if BTC indeed goes POS.

This won't impact much to the market price as it had plummet down to its ground but if it does, it going to be a good thing for those who are waiting for the price to drop again. Its been a constant reminded to everyone here in the forum not to put more coins in your exchange as there is no secure way as long as its accessible in the internet page. Hackers will find a way.

I think Sir is usual in Virginia, they use it for respect so you might have to reconsider after all its not just the people there who uses it. Its good to know where the word came from though. Some people also don't like themselves to be called sir as it means master which religious people only believe the rabbi are the only that should be called sir.

What annoys me is the phrase "interesting project". For someone who says so should also support as to why they find it interesting.

Yep I've read the article about the countries adopting crypto and Malta is the number of one. It would be reasonable for the crypt exchange to establish offices and probably move their main office in Malta. I guess if we all are going to be richer one day, we'd probably be setting up meeting in the country. Their government went ahead to approach the adoption of the virtual currencies.

Its on the top 3 of the coinmarketcap, it should be popular than any coin below it, were not just talking about the marketcap but how known it is to the people here in the forum and to the traders. IT has been fud over and over for years but XRP stand still, I have been reading the XRP speculation thread for years and see people replying to it being too centralized and why it will fail. Regardless of which ever is the truth behind it, the coin arises and maintained its position on top.