The problem with Ripple is that is not decentralized enough jet. Its owners possess more than 2/3 of all coins so they are able to manipulate the price much harder then any other decentralized coin If the pressure from small investors come in.
They are here to serve the institutional players so they have to keep the coin price attractive for them. And once the Institutional investors come in and adopt the coin massively than the Ripple will rocket! Now If they decide to ditch the 20% of their portfolio on market at time the small investors demand for coin its high the coin value wont go up as fast the small investor wants.
I think Ripples strategy is different as they plan to stay here long and grow steady over next couple of years so they will get decentralized when they get more institutional players sucked in.
Not all coins are the same and at the AltcoinUnicorn Games we are trying to identify '#unicorn #altcoins that offer longer term sustainable upside for the #crypto investors'
AltcoinUnicorn FINAL is now set: Ripple vs. IOTA
'Round 3' voting at the #AltcoinUnicorn Games is now LIVE, we will crown the champion on Sep 9, 2017
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https://www.securecoin.capital/coingames FINAL - Match 7: Ripple ($XRP) takes on IOTA ($IOT) - can IOTA pull off the upset against Ripple which enjoyed significant tailwinds to get into the final round
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RIPPLE (#XRP)
ROUND 1: Closest of the 4 first round matches, EOS (#EOS) gave Ripple (#XRP) all that it had but fell short in mounting a comeback.
ROUND 2: Ripple (#XRP) supporters came out in droves to beat NEO (#NEO) in our 'West vs. East' showdown.
IOTA (#IOT)
ROUND 1: IOTA (#IOT) crushed Gnosis (#GNO) by getting 94% of all votes casted.
ROUND 2: IOTA (#IOT) kept up with its Round 1 performance by pulling off an upset by beating out popular Litecoin (#LTC) who they had trailed for most of the round.