The current rise of Ripple is quite significant, at market cap Ethereum the long standing 2nd is way below Ripple now and its still going very strong.
Yes Bitcoin can be dethroned, but not by Ripple or Ethereum. Ripple and Ethereum aren't intended for the same use as Bitcoin, so all three are capable of existing together and being successful.
Bitcoin was intended to be a currency, lately the market has been driving Bitcoin as more of an investment class (rather than a currency) and largely because merchants aren't flocking to accept a currency for payment that can fluctuate so much in value.
Ripple is a currency to facilitate bank transactions faster, like in 3 seconds rather than 3 days. The CEO of Ripple recently said on CNBC that currently the fastest way to send $10,000 from NYC to London is to get on a plane and fly it there! Ripple will solve that problem.
Ethereum is a blockchain template. It's currency is for processing power to move information across the Ethereum blockchain.
So all three have different business purposes, thus all three can be successful together.
you are wrong
ripple only can work if the usa stays as an empire
but it wont, why should the entire worlds economy be focused on the USA?
it currently only does that because the USA is controlling the oil in the middle east that is why there were so many wars over last decades (US-vs middle east)
the US financial elite did systematic propaganda to do their oil wars in the middle east, and all world needed to get US dollars to buy oil and develop their economies,
but this time is fading rapidly away especially with trump,
the US$ stops beeing a world lead currency, and ripple becomes then just an IT system used between banksters, that cit in glass palaces and enjoyed most privileged of the society, therefore i dont think ripple will be successful in the long term either.
even the evaluation of bitcoin and others becomes questionable
why is bitcoin worth multiple litecoin and how many exactly? without a trustworthy and working lead currency this question cant be answered
money becomes highly social, and an instrument of leadership you dont take money if you know its not doing any good at all,
that is why i am working on this C-pro Cryptocurrency, that is about the development of value productive capacities
because i know in a post dollar environment money that is not doing god generally with an idea cant be evaluated,
if people in poverty and conflict striken environments take a currency that is designed about the creation value sorces they now it helps solving problems,
and a currency that is beeing designed to decentrally develop value sources willtherefore be popular
while currencies that are wasting ressources claiming just to be currencies, will not
regards
I agree with one part, bitcoin's dependency on US markets might make it vulnerable (just drawing parallel between macroeconomics of Asia, Europe and US) a sure shot pull down will be any adverse steps towards bitcoin from China, God forbid it happens... the other aspect could be the availability and security any concern over there could really go bad.
