Relatively new to trading crypto for altcoins so was just wondering if anyone knew how did Ripple blow up so high in price?
It has a circulating supply of 53,175,400,720 (Coinmarketcap) , a max supply of 100,000,000,000, yet it still managed to astronomically increase it's price from $0.0029438 to $3.84?
I didn't know a coin could have so much supply yet increase to that price, so how did it all happen?
There's a single reason why Ripple, a much inferior coin became a successful one and is still a widely used is it being an early coin. There were very few coins when Ripple came to existence and being a centralized coin, it's transactions were fast and it's promises were high. A large number of supply means cheaper in price which made it accessible to large number of people. Some just compared its price with the like of bitcoin and Ethereum without knowing the technicalities. Overall, Ripple had a benefits of being one of the earlier coin and a lot of people are invested in it. So, even though it comes with large obstacles and hindrances, it's demise is not that quick.