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Yes, you're right, I would say that it is a bubble.
However you have to look at the context, sometimes a pump isn't necessarily just a bubble. Even a coin which is pumped to 500%+ in a day might have very good reasons, for exmaple some sort of ownership change, going from beta to actual version of the software etc. But I agree with you, Ripple is seeming like a very big bubble right now, great time to sell tbh. But I'm not sure whether this is going to be the ATH yet... The craze might even continue for longer.
all these things you described look like pump to be honest because none of the reasons warrant a real demand for the coin and all show FOMO buying the coin to join in the possible price rise. for example ownership change, or sometimes even release of a wallet software or things like that doesn't really change much and we can see from their history that these coins get dumped which proves the pump assumption.
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Yeah, but Ripple was started 2005.
It's not something you just catch up to.
2005 was just talk! the development began in 2011
i see on exchanges from 2013!
ripple company was funded in 2012!
but this is actually raising a pretty interesting question for me at least, and whenever i ask it nobody seems to have any proper answer for it.
these coins that are rising now have been around for years (not talking only about XRP) and nothing has changed about them. everything is almost the same as before but the price is rising.
you can't tell me that people suddenly decided after many years that these pump and dumping altcoins are suddenly good, and all of them at once!