The only coins which impresses me always is Ethereum and Monero. I am very much sure this could prove to be a stable competitor to btc and might have a very long run similar to btc and not just like the erc-20 shitcoins and other forkcoins.
Monero is very interesting, unfortunately I hadn't the time yet to make a sufficient research about it but owning a few of them is a good idea.
There is a huge bot army spreading fake-FOMO about XRP and they got busted recently. xD
I still don't understand who run this bot army or
why they should even do that if XRP is the best. They no longer need shilling like ICO/IEO out there, almost listed on every exchange out there. Should've done better if they focus marketing XRP to future clients instead of traders and moonboys. Way more productive.
Exactly, that reminds me of all the shitcoin ICOs where it's necessary to do so much spam marketing that someone invests. Maybe Ripple has so much money and don't know where to spend it rather than shills...
+1, nice guide for beginners
As the snapshot suggests, only BTC stays at the top. Will we see Bitcoin at the top for the next 10 years? Who knows, but it should happen. With ETF, Bakkt and other institutional platforms which will likely push another bull mania for Bitcoin and crypto in general. That will be the time when your shitcoin can give max profits, after that they'll die. History will repeat itself.
Who cares about ranking, ranking based on market capacity will not make any difference.
In other words, if shitcoin becomes number one, does that mean it is better than Bitcoin? of course not.
Curiously, there are currencies since 2013 unheard of. This shows the importance of technology.
I consider marketcap rankings like such ones from coinmarketcap more as an estimated overview without a very good accuracy. The supply of each currency can be displayed very differently and affecting the marketcap, depending on how the circulating supply is calculated. While it's clear for a mined currency like BTC, some projects are including / excluding parts of it in a very intransparent way and that makes an exact calculation sometimes not possible.
And the difference between circulating and total supply is not included in the rankings. That's very important to look at because if there's a big discrepancy and still lots of coins have to be issued the price will be affected if more coins come into circulation. The rate of not issued coins for BTC is already very low (around 14% of all BTC are not issued yet) compared to other coins. An example is Stellar, more than 80% (!) of all Stellar are not issued yet and therefore not included in the ranking:
This will affect the price in a negative way if they come into circulation later.