Burn baby burn

PS: Ripple is also a a scam. If you own any, get out and get out immediately while a "greater fool" still exists to buy your coins. People are getting smarter on the massive XRP premine and those fools won't be around for much longer.

Uh, no. XRP has been CRUSHED on every exchange. It's trading for around $1.66 at the moment. Market cap has nothing to do with exchanges other than the fact exchanges set a price that can be used to compute it. The market capitalization of a coin is the average price traded time the number of shares outstanding. There are never large differences between prices on different legitimate exchanges since that would create an immensely profitable arbitrage - not like you can go buy XRP on the hundreds of exchanges where it is $1.66 and then go sell it on this mythical removed exchange where fairy dust flies and it's still $3.20.

 An acceleration service is probably your best bet - they charge a fee and there is no guarantee but the concept is sound; all miners want is the fee so if an accelerator company is legitimately partnered with pools, and sends them your transaction, then when that block gets mined your transaction will be confirmed.

My best guess would be Ethereum #1, BCH #2, with the original Bitcoin fork gradually fading into obscurity as miners move over to BCH. The original Bitcoin is just broken right now with huge transaction backlogs and very slow processing time for transactions that aren't laden with fees. BCH, by contrast, is functioning smoothly and should really have the higher market cap at this point. Ethereum's big edge is that the platform is useful for smart contracts and tokens.

ETH is the sun (and the son) and the moon and the sky and the stars. It is the chosen one!

GOOD MOVE. Ripple is trash - centralized scam coin. My advice to anyone with XRP is sell it all, and sell it immediately.

Something like Sexcoin (SXC). $50 would get you around 250 SXC. We've seen what happens when a coin takes off so if SXC becomes popular in the adult industry, possible, you would be looking at a valuation of something like $5 per token which would be a nice ROI for that $50 investment.

In terms of value, market capitalization, it ETH probably already has surpassed BTC. The value of all the tokens plus all the ICO's build on top of the platform is enormous. In terms of price, that is also very likely but it require the two to move in different directions. Notably, if BTC just falls back to where it was trading early in 2017 and ETH remains where it is then a single ETH would be more valuable than a single BTC. More likely, BTC will fall to about $5k while ETH will continue an upward trend & they'll meet in the middle.

Ripple is a scam

Bitcoin has nearly all the characteristics of a good investment - it is scarce, useful, and if you protect your private keys extremely secure.

In addition to those highly desirable characteristics, it also has more amazing qualities:

1. Can be transferred anywhere in the world securely and, almost, instantly
2. Can be sold or bought in almost any fraction
3. Can be traded for other currencies or fiat on hundreds of exchanges
4. Can be used to buy real goods and services at hundreds of merchants

Seems like garbage - I'm not wasting my time with it.

I think Sexcoin (SXC) has more potential.

Let's pray that the RIPPLE PREMINED CENTRALIZED SCAM COIN pump is over. BTC, the once and future king! Do these morons buying Ripple not realize they are just making a donation to one guy? Ripple co-founder, with his 37% stake, now the world's richest man. Sick. http://bitcoinist.com/ripple-co-founder-worlds-richest-person/

Since ethereum is the fuel that runs all the smart contracts, literally hundreds of ICO's and apps (i.e. the infamous cryptokitties) at the moment, it will be a very sought after commodity. $2k is possible in Feburary, $5k by year end.

Ripple is essentially a scam - it is centrally controlled and nearly all the coins are controlled, and can be minted in unlimited quantity, by the central broker. Shouldn't even really be listed on crypto forums since it's a glorified Paypal.

No question ETH should be #1 right now by a wide margin. Pretty disgusting how so many coins stole ETH's design and try to peddle themselves as smart contract coins. That's bullshit - screw those coins and just buy ETH.

I like Sexcoin (SXC) better than Bitcoin Cash. It's got a better looking dev team.

No it's a false identity created by the team who originally created Bitcoin to provide them some cover in case authorities cracked down. Gavin Bell was clearly the lead contributor but quite a few people were involved. Hal Finney, etc...

They are probably getting payouts from those scammers at Ripple who run a centralized system but falsely claim it is a distributed blockchain.