Ripple vs. Ether; get ready for the next battle!

[ashkanb]

Recently, Ripple's been pushing hard for the title of the second crypto!

i've been checking coinmarketcap 50 times a day past few months! & in the past couple of weeks -as of writing of this post- this is exactly the 3rd time Ripple has become the 2nd biggest crypto!

Every time it's been the same: Ripple surges, Ether follows in a few hours to prove dominance; Ripple wave breaks, Ether is back in its position but its market feels semi-stagnant & bored, the Ripple market stays excited & the process repeats!

I can read articles but i'm not much technically inclined!
technologically speaking, does ripple have any actual advantage over ethereum -for ripple to take over ether for good- to settle in the 2nd place?!
Or in terms of technology, they each have their own niches & their market value is mostly derived from their application & outside investment in their application; in that case, which of these two technologies you think are better developed & better marketed? which one you think would be better suited to invest in?

Now i'm curious about this because i do have a policy to save my extra pennies in the form of 3 biggest cryptos every month & would prefer to adjust the percentage of my pennies going into different cryptos less speculatively or emotionally & more scientifically! I don't have the science though; but i'm positive there are a large number of people here who do!!! (also great number of ppl with ulterior motives! i know that too!)
So u knw; give anyone who's interested in this topic your expert opinion or suggest reads or just battle it out! thanks for your participation in advance!

(yes i knw, old acc haven't posted in ages! how come now? whats with that? been transferred?! nope! just long ass family problem that is now resolved & spare time being spent productively, hopefully!)
(title, Tekken pun intended!)

sorry for the long post! 

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[ashkanb]

as of this minute: 11:18 gmt, sep 30 18; coin market cap says xrp $24.29b m.cap eth 24.18b m.cap!
xrp hanging by the skin of teeth as the 2nd biggest crypto!
(this reply is only for reference purposes! admin feel free to remove without notice!)

[bigcash2011]

Looks like after ripple now its ethereum's turn to spark upwards, fundamentally too ethereum's future contracts are also being introduced that can also push the price and volume upwards.

[butka]

If you ask me, marketcap doesn't mean too much and the race for the second place is also not important. What is important is how these two technologies will prove themselves in the long run.  

technologically speaking, does ripple have any actual advantage over ethereum -for ripple to take over ether for good- to settle in the 2nd place?!
Or in terms of technology, they each have their own niches & their market value is mostly derived from their application & outside investment in their application; in that case, which of these two technologies you think are better developed & better marketed? which one you think would be better suited to invest in?

I don't see any technological advantage of XRP over Ethereum. It is also worth mentioning that technologically their platforms are totally different. It can be argued that the ETH blockchain is flawed, but even the way it is now is much more in line with the general idea how a crypto public ledger should look like. By contrast, Ripple is totally centralized and you cannot really say that it is a cryptocurrency at all. When you invest in XRP, you are basically investing in a company, which may be fine if that's what you want to do. Ethereum, on the other side has its own problems. Depending on whether or not they manage to solve them (e.g., will PoS work as it's supposed), it could be a good investment, or a total disaster.

[andradwi]

I think ETH will still be the first choice after btc, and
I think this is the time for ETH investment. we can buy and save it. because you believe that in the beginning of 2019 prices will increase again ... there are still investors and various kinds of parties looking for ... hopefully that can be true

[greenlanternlight01]

Looks like a tough fight, but ultimately Eth will win. I want decentralization to win

[hakertajniak]

Recently, Ripple's been pushing hard for the title of the second crypto!

i've been checking coinmarketcap 50 times a day past few months! & in the past couple of weeks -as of writing of this post- this is exactly the 3rd time Ripple has become the 2nd biggest crypto!

Every time it's been the same: Ripple surges, Ether follows in a few hours to prove dominance; Ripple wave breaks, Ether is back in its position but its market feels semi-stagnant & bored, the Ripple market stays excited & the process repeats!

I can read articles but i'm not much technically inclined!
technologically speaking, does ripple have any actual advantage over ethereum -for ripple to take over ether for good- to settle in the 2nd place?!
Or in terms of technology, they each have their own niches & their market value is mostly derived from their application & outside investment in their application; in that case, which of these two technologies you think are better developed & better marketed? which one you think would be better suited to invest in?

Now i'm curious about this because i do have a policy to save my extra pennies in the form of 3 biggest cryptos every month & would prefer to adjust the percentage of my pennies going into different cryptos less speculatively or emotionally & more scientifically! I don't have the science though; but i'm positive there are a large number of people here who do!!! (also great number of ppl with ulterior motives! i know that too!)
So u knw; give anyone who's interested in this topic your expert opinion or suggest reads or just battle it out! thanks for your participation in advance!

(yes i knw, old acc haven't posted in ages! how come now? whats with that? been transferred?! nope! just long ass family problem that is now resolved & spare time being spent productively, hopefully!)
(title, Tekken pun intended!)

sorry for the long post! 

Yeah right, i see XRP now have the 2nd position in coinmarketcap. I think XRP is win from ETH because XRP is not able to be mined.
The growth of the XRP price is the real organic growth, unlike ETH which have coin to be mined and can increasing the market cap because more coins added.

[taiwww]

Lets not forget that Ripple did defeat the ETH one time last year but it went down again due to the fact that it was not capable enough to make things good again. I guess Ripple currently is really pushing hard as you said but its not gonna cross the ETH at all due to the fact that ETH already went down a lot and touched its bottom prices and now everyone thinks that this is the perfect time to buy it. What has happened due to this? Well people have driven the market volume of the ETH way lot more than XRP and thus ideally XRP can not take the second position if its volume remains downside.

[lifesgood10]

It’s not such a long battle and as happened recently
Ripple has shown us that it has little strength to sustain the secon position on coinmarketcap
It tried to get pumped to attain that but Etherum showed that when you are pumped, you will run of funds to pump and end up going down back to normal position

Don’t have doubts on Etherum
It’s gonna surprise quite a lot of investors

[craked5]

this is not competitions. these two coins have different application so jus buy both of them and relax) seriously, both ETH and Ripple are developing in a very good way.

[D3m1r4wanti]

at present, ethereum has shown a good price increase, as well as the ripple (XRP) indeed shows that they are ready to fight back in several exchangers. to become the next king of crypto currencies.

[bittick]

this is not competitions. these two coins have different application so jus buy both of them and relax) seriously, both ETH and Ripple are developing in a very good way.

But these guys will always try to take anything as a competition in the crypto, ripple is a competitor to the stellar platform which has been aiming to become the next open payment platform. that doesn't make sense when we are creating such a comparison between the smartcontract platform and the platform that focused to create open payment system.

[Tipstar]

This is going to be the ultimate battle. Both of the coins are actively being developed and both are finding new horizons to expand.
Ripple being centralized has agility in decisions making and hence better profit on each deal. While ETH is slow on development, it's decentralization nature makes it transparent and dependable.

[taufik123]

The competition between Ripple and Ethereum as the second most valuable ata cryptocurrency money continues. Although the technology used is the same that uses blockchain technology, the sectors they target are different. but to compare both Ripple and ETH performance, the answer is the best Ripple because the transactions done with Ripple (XRP) are faster and cheaper.
But the ETH is currently taking a step into "Proof-of-Stakes and improving their" Sharding "and" Plasma "which might be better compared to Ripple. Both of these coins have a bright and good future in the blockchain industry.

[aprilnot]

whatever happens I will still support ethereum, because I know ethereum is an altcoin that will give a surprise. while ripple, I'm not interested in this coin because I once regretted buying it. imagine when I think ripple will fly, in fact they are destroyed.

[miyaka26]

I rarely use ripple specifically for short trades, some of my crypto assets are ETH and it's token inside its blockchain, close battle for capitalization but the fact that eth had been more adopted by companies and groups who wants to utilize the smart contracts to their campaigns and other motives, there's so many plans to innovate Ethereum for transactions and other problem to solve.

[el kaka22]

I didn't know they were this close, I thought there was a huge difference between them but apparently with the increase in the price of ripple the other day they got too close.

As long as ripple continues to make deals with the companies and banks and increase their value the ripple will go up like the shares of a successful company whereas ethereum will stay like this as long as ICO market is dried up and not going anywhere. Ripple will win this until their success goes along and eth has no ICO market to serve for.

Ethereum will comeback and be more valube compared to Ripple if the ICO market gets liven up again so eth could rise.

[Lighthouze]

Both coins have different use cases, and in the crypto world, ETH has more application than XRP will ever have. ETH is decentralized, XRP is not. I don't really see any battle or one to look out for. Just a little spike in the price of ETH will see it reclaiming its spot in 2nd place

[markalis]

I think xrp has a good momentum to be able to take over ethereum's position, but I believe the ethereum project will prepare something new to strengthen its position again, this is good for both altcoin competition

[slightmoon]

Yeah now really a tough fight between ripple and eth. But in my opinion, it's hard for ripple to continue its potion over the eth. Just in time of price surge ripple get second place. Nowadays ETH has not as much growth but in the long-term, it has a good future. So, For the long term, ETH will be ahead of ripple.