Topic: Will Ripple (XRP) usurp Bitcoin? (Read 501 times)

Bitcoin is still being developed, just like many other cryptocurrencies. How can you be sure that XRP won't face difficulties once it reaches the adoption stage BTC is in right now?
I wouldn't start hating on BTC and treating it as a failure until the dust settles. There are upgrades to the network being proposed as we speak.


When BTC goes down they are always looking for an altcoin to get into. BCH and LTC weren't looking that great as they were all going up for a time so they chose an altcoin that has been in a downtrend for months. In a few weeks they will dump XRP and move to BTC (if lightning gets attention) or BCH.

It can all be possible, but I think it needs to hold the level a bit at first. Interesting to watch in the next couple of weeks!

I don't think so, bitcoin is king and will remain king for a while more. If something usurps bitcoin it won't be ripple. I feel ripple is nearing its full potential.

Ripple value is high but can it stay high? I think it pumped too fast. It has already dropped a lot from the last high and still dropping.

Ripple is made for banks and have some use cases but I do not hear of many banks using it. It cannot be compared with general coins like Bitcoin or Ethereum.

Ripple market cap reached $89,556,767,666 & ripple price 2.31$ now.It's unbelievable ripple crossed ETH market cap.I don't know any others coin when touched eth market cap.I think at first XRP touched ETH market cap.

XRP is not Bitcoin, it doesn't have the same philosophy or structure.

XRP may pass Bitcoin in market cap but you can rest assured that the fiat to do that, will not be coming from people that support the crypto currency movement. It's quite possible the fiat will be coming from people that are against the crypto currency movement, eg. bankers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qww1xANMyM4

I think XRP is currently is on a HUGE pump wave. Just my opinion thought. XRP is not strong enough to even overtake ETH in long run (so it will not beat BTC definitely)

Nice dream man, keep your dreams... At the end bitcoin will slap hard to that ripple hype. Trut me when this happen, you'll regret hard. I remember the guys talking when bitcoin's market portion was about 38% during mid june 2017.

Honestly it could happen when more partners will start to use actively xrp for payments. However i hope bitcoin will always lead the way

It could happen I suppose. Look at all the issues Bitcoin is having at the moment, and it's expensive for the everyday person. As far as decentralization /centralization goes, I don't think the average person cares about that. If it's easier to use, and is cheaper I can see the average person jumping on XRP.

XRP is a centralized and closed scam coin created for bankers and wallstreet.

is currently ranked second in cmc, displacing the existence of eth .. trend began to rise xrp seems to be born a new pioneer coin more efficient and effective

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Bam O.:
Do you know what people are buying Ripple with?

USD? No. Eth and BTC.

Do you know who holds most of the ripple in this world? Who's selling it? Banks.

What we're witnessing is the reversing of the massive wealth transfer.

The banks KNOW that they can't kill Eth and BTC, now they need to get as much of it as possible. They don't want to pay full price.

Their plan?
Develop XRP, Hold most of it.. artificially manipulate the price by bidding it up, $2, $3...
When retards think it will keep going $4, $5... they are trading precious LIMITED decentralised Ethereum and BTC... for a shitcoin that can be printed on a whim.

In the end the banks will win. They will end up holding most of the Ethereum and BTC.. You will end up holding most of the XRP..

and that's when Macafee's prophecy will occur. BTC will head to 1M, Eth to $500k per coin... and you'll be holding Ripple, basically pegged to the USD valued from $0.5 to $1.50 per coin.

Do not support a centralized, closed wallstreet pupped cryptocurrency.

The idea of cryptocurrency is a decentralized to break the wallstreet and bankingsystem.

FUCK XRP!

I was thinking the same today and I felt screwed from my stupidity because 70% of my current portfolio is in BTC. The situation is even worst as I've changed some alts for BTC when bitcoin marketcap dominance was over 50%

I think it's possible to pump it even over Bitcoin and I can't imagine what will happens with bitcoin price then...

Ripple is for banks transfers, I do not any individual sending or receiving ripple as a payment method. Traders and investors speculate on it, that is it.

Ripple is of course a good coin however bitcoin and ripple are all different thing. Ripple is an alternative of Swift system while Bitcoin is an alternative of Gold. Both have a good future indeed

Good reason to be excited. Most of the top trading pairs for BTC are with XRP. I would think this is a better long term situation for BTC than if most pairs were to fiat. BTC could keep going lower as long as XRP keeps up the momentum.

Come on man, BTC proved it can overcome dramas and other problems.. They will improve for sure.

But I think XRP can surpass btc 2 years from now? We will see. nothing is impossible with cryptos

Ripple is the banks way into cryptocurrency. We will probably see a huge rise in overall market cap.
I am afraid that too many private investors go into Ripple though. But overall growth is healthy still.

If Ripple takes #1, then Altcoins may take a huge hit the next coming months, but I think they will all recover and grow with Ripple in that case.
I just recently invested a lot into a couple of altcoins, and all of them are in the red.
I seriously hope bitcoin investors sell, and invest in something else than Ripple.

I find it interesting how many people continue to use the argument that banks don't need Ripple (though I'm sure he means XRP) because, while it's true that banks don't NEED XRP, using XRP provides an additional 30% reduction in fees on the Ripple network.  I believe Ripple will eventually overtake Bitcoin, but it may take most of 2018 to do so.  Gotta remember that as of right now, Bitcoin is the #1 crypto accepted when trading other cryptos, so it'll naturally continue to hold strong value for a long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRvM1JwLhwc

i believe it will. people thought ripple will never reach a dollar because supply is too high. well, it's over $2 now

I hope the ripple continues to rise again and be more than the current price. because it's been number two at bittrex and hopefully can shift and be number one.

I think many have claimed over the years to actually have the capacity to usurp and trample on bitcoin. However, no one has proven such claim as well. I think right now, the parity in price are keeping every other coin at bay in terms of gaining a massive pump in value and an increased usage rate. For now, many people still believe and rely heavily on bitcoin that no other coin in the market catches fire to at least show any surge in price like bitcoin did in the last few months. Some coins may increase little by little at a steady pace, but it would take them some time to reach the potential bitcoin has shown.

XRP is being pumped on Bithumb by newbies mainly 

It is shilled here by newbies as well

Soon it will blow up in people's faces like a cheap firecracker and the money will flow back into good coins

Money flow:

Newbies -> Smart XRP whales -> real cryptocoins

XRP has no use and no value for a normal person, even the banks that use Ripple network don't need it, or only very little...

People want to buy ripple because they think it will get add on coinbase but I think when it gets add on coinbase next year the price will dump really hard. Most of the volume right now are from korea and they really like to gamble over there

No one uses ripple for anything but speculation. Most of the volume is coming from Korea and Asia in general. Its just gambling to them.

Xrp will be big i agree but for surpass bitcoin i still doubt it. Bitcoin is the first crypto and always be number one. Its like gold in real life and ripple is like dollar or euro. So bitcoin will not use in daily bassis but ripple will be usefull all over the world. Amex already work with amex and it is very good for them.

I agree. I think Ripple will surpass Bitcoin in 2018, maybe early 2018.
People are selling their Bitcoins and buying XRP, which is why XRP is going up and Bitcoin going down or staying the same

Youre kidding right? If it ever comes to that Im more than ready trade all my ripple for your bitcoins. Come get some..

The fundamentals of how Ripple work do not support a heavy TA approach. See for example this piece here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2017/12/21/asians-going-mad-for-ripple-coin/#200119906422

Clearly, there is a lot of speculation going on in the market regarding Ripple. Speculation that could end disastrously for some that have no idea what the fundamentals of the market look like.

Ripple is meant as a transactional coin and it is controlled by a corporate entity that can adjust the functionality and supply distribution strategy if deemed necessary.
https://ripple.com/insights/ripple-to-place-55-billion-xrp-in-escrow-to-ensure-certainty-into-total-xrp-supply/

It was never meant as a store of value. A good store of value should not fluctuate by 60% in a short period of time. With volatility like that and a very significant supply disadvantage over other cryptos Ripple was never designed for "hodling" or speculation. This idea that people are "investing" in Ripple based on an expectation that Ripple's "users" will grow significantly is flawed since an ideal use case of Ripple involves quickly entering a transaction and exiting a transaction with no change of value through the time involved in transacting. Since Ripple's basic feature requires that there be no significant fluctuation in price for Ripple tokens during the transaction there will be no way that this kind of speculative activity will be allowed to get out of hand as it essentially breaks the functionality of Ripple as a fast, cheap, reliable form of quickly moving funds outside of the traditional bank settled system.

Imagine for example, that Ripple decides suddenly that crypto investors have lost their damn minds and decide they need to increase the supply to regain control over pricing and liquidity. Well, they don't need consensus from their users to "hard fork" or the equivalent to change the parameters of the market.

I would recommend those gambling with Ripple pay close attention to how this market works because you could be playing with fire, but just like buying futures or options if your duration is short enough then you can probably make money here without getting burned if you allocate your portfolio with attention to managing risk.

Anything is possible, with a lot of investors scattered around with different alt, there is a chance where Xrp could infiltrate btc position, because as we know bitcoin now got a serious issue to fix, and other coin in a big pump, but it's still a long story, now Xrp need to secure the position with eth, eth is also not that easy to beat down

january will be bad month for ripple, no coinbase add and back to being stable at whatever bottom it finds. 70-80c maybe, then possibly new rally in spring with more newcomers coming in to buy the "cheapest" big coin and dreaming of getting lambos for their 50 xrp lmao

XRP will surpass BTC in 2018, humans need simple, fast, cheap way to send money with strong base. Not forking shit with mess around it.

You are an hilarious idiot

Nope ripple is just paper. It is coin for centralized network. Bitcoin will always stay more preferrable for people in cryptocurrency markets. I think ripple is going to be dumped in 3 2 1...

Ripple surely has potential, but I can't see it beating Bitcoin. It's gonna need quite a bit more exposure to achieve that.

i wish i invested more in alternate cryptos. I think its the future as there are lower fees and more affordable .

Most likely not, there's too many things going against it to be #1. Not to say it doesn't have a lot of potential, but there's so many other future coins (or even currently) that have better projects in store. But then again, we may be shocked.

Highly doubt it. I am still one of the people who trusts BTC above all coins even if it is facing some problems now. I am sure its developers will eventually make some good improvements soon regarding its process. As of XRP surpassing BTC, even if XRP goes into top 1 it still doesn't mean that it dominates the crypto world now. Remember that transactions on wallets and exchangers are still currenly under BTC and ETH and only a few accepts USD. CMC rank is just a list but if you're one of those people who do their research first about the stability of a coin then you won't really fall for that kind of list as you'll expect that there will be some correction soon that eventually lowers the price of Ripple in the market.

2 days ago THE PROPHET said XRP was about to run and topple BTC

www.SolAdoni.com

I posted his info days ago when I got it

I'm on his members list so we get his info before public

For couple of days if you searched Twitter for crypto or ripple he was #1 Tweet.

He is .1% Expert Klout ranking on crypto Currencies

Huge following

Ripple is on the run that's for sure.
But I follow the volume. 7 billion is a big number.
In this pump it won't be near Bitcoin, but maybe in next round.

it wouldnt happen because the circulating supply is very high if they going to burn tokens maybe it will surpass bitcoin.. but for now alot of whales are accumulating bitcoin and its very bullish soon!

Ripple's current market cap is $216 billion, which means that it will require another $40 billion to surpass Bitcoin's market cap, but that doesn't mean anything. If we look back, Bitcoin's market cap has already been surpassed by numerous coins a few times already. It's classic market cap manipulation done by having a coin with like 100 billion units as supply, give it a value of $2-$3 per unit, and there you have a higher market cap than Bitcoin. If I recall correctly, Ripple has been one of the coins having surpassed Bitcoin in market cap some months ago as well. Market caps are useless metrics because of how easy it is to manipulate a coin with an insane total supply - it doesn't say anything about actual usage, etc.

https://coinmarketcap.com/coins/views/market-cap-by-total-supply/

Well, i am curious one thing about your statement. Is that really ripple has been around even longer than bitcoin? If yes than i dont know that. Nice to know it now
About ripple, the price will never more than bitcoin but the marketcap might be yes it can be more than bitcoin but not near time, need very long time.

yes, XRP is altcoin which has good and fast development. today XRP is still at $ 2 point. but XRP service makes people satisfied, cheap, fast, and sure.
talk a bit about bitcoin, is it expensive fee's, slow system, caused by increasing volume and spreading?

Ripple can easily surpass bitcoin, bitcoin already is a failure to me,  with high transaction fee and slow network.

IMO Ripple won't become much bigger than it already is because of a very high amount of coins in circulation and because it's aiming for banks. It's a matter of  time before people realize we that don't need banks and we don't need the current financial system. I'm among those who think the system is flawed and corrupt and that we need to go towards more anonymous, decentralized. We shouldn't be thinking of cryptocurrencies like they were an upgrade to the current fiat based economy. They should be the end of it.

People have been talking. Word is getting out. Ripple, which has been around longer than even Bitcoin, is on the rise. If it reaches past $6.29 it will surpass Bitcoin on coin market cap.

Bitcoin was suppose to be fast and cheap, instead it is expensive and slow. The developers plan on releasing LN, but they are moving too slow and BTC may end up getting replaced. By the time LN gets realeased, people will be like "Oh that's cool. Too bad all these alt coins are already more popular now."

Bitcoin's marketcap dominance has dropped to a whopping low of 40%. Everyday it loses more and more of the total market cap.

People are losing faith in Bitcoin left and right. The Bitcoin religion as we know it is crumbling and the alt coins are taking hold.

Crap coins all over are being pumped like crazy. Cryptocurrency is in a massive bubble. Let's finally acknowledge it.

Ripple is going up, because some big corporations in the news were "implementing the technology" or whatever. Will Ripple surpass Bitcoin in this massive bubble war?