Good overview  @dragosroua

Thank you very much for the disclosures

that is so true, and steem in my own opinion,is the most functional cryptocurrency there is right now.

Your writing is very interesting.
But I want to ask you, what do you think about the development of 2018 bitcoin price in the future?
I just want to survey some people

This similarity between stellar and ripple is striking

thank you for the information is very useful for me

### hi @dragosroua, 
informative assessment about the rising of **Ripple** and **Stellar** day by day. you are right we should see the trend of market. predictions are only 50/50. i have only interest in **Steem**, so i love it.

Interesting observation... which also makes me wonder where we would place Steem on the "utility" scale. It fuels a social site and there are SMTs in the works... but does that make it more of a utility coin?

steemit is our very own favorite cryptocurrency. And in 2018 I'm looking steemit in top 20 list of Market cap.
Ripple is looking in very aggressive mood. I predict it would be at least $5 in 1st week of January, 2018.
ADA & XLM will remain under $1 but their Market Cap will grow. But obviously this is a big day for XLM to come in Top 10.
Excellent post and very nice analysis on the recent ups and down in the world of cryptocurrency. Keep sharing your experience and research @dragosroua.

happy new year and good luck

Ripple Ripple Ripple everywhere for past a few days show it's potential according to the current scenario of the market :P
>First, Ripple just overtook Ethereum as the largest second currency in the world by market cap.
Second, Stellar just made it to top 10.
And third, crypto veterans BTC, LTC and ETH are all in red.

 As far as the Steem is concerned i have noticed one thing that people are very much satisfied to this currency and there is no hustle among them.

Thanks @dragosroua for making the picture more clear about Ripple.

Keep updating and stay blessed :)

TRAVESTY

I hope that utility tokens are the new trend. Coins like Sia, Golem, Ripple, and Stellar could really use a pump and some new investors because of the kind of tech they offer.

The crypto world is definitely full of surprises. I do not think anyone would have imagined ripple overtaking ethereum to be the second largest coin by market cap. I agree with your speculation and I'm very positive 2018 will be a massive year for steem.

Good article,
btw @dragosroua , if you have a couple of minutes available, please, could you participate in this survey?
https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@toofasteddie/winning-horses-for-2018-last-call

We just have to wait until Appics launches and puts the first SMT project in the hands of everyone using an smartphone and taking pictures. Just realizing how they add money on top of using a great app will set the tipping point.

That´s a very valid point and I´m seeing it the same way. Don´t forget Cardano, which is also on the rise and their main mission is scalability and becoming a reliable gateway currency from and into the fiat world. The difference with Cardano though is, that it´s a real cryptocoin, that is not owned and controlled by banks like Ripple. I see this as a very important paradigm shift in the Cryptoworld.

Thanks for keeping the uneducated updated! All the best for you in 2018!

Its indeed time for Steemit to shine in 2018 with introduction of SMTs and Steemit related applications like the recently very successful @appics presale..
>In other words, money seem to be flowing out of "hype", into "function". Investors seem to become more and more educated and "just because it's on the blockchain" is not enough of a reason anymore to support a token. It has to do something real, useful, measurable.

for ripple  to reach this status was a long time coming , eventually the banks were going to cave in, for stellar to do what its doing is another story, had my doubts but alas . if your prediction is true then 2018 we should brace ourselves for for steem and SBD to rise from the ashes

didn't saw the growth of Stellar in the ripple growth looks like the shift is coming

I still think Korean pumping has something to do with it...
Stellar is a surprise, cuz it's not listed on Korean exchanges
![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmaawXfe26YNUNdPHKD1mG2e3JxU8acZhtjTnJ1uEZDiaq/image.png)
![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmU6BK8KFhK9Vk6VHdWVT7jCpwEhvYEjchhgDMBE6Mvp6G/image.png)
And wow, China pumps things too
![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUjuxYew6pDrQYzFvL5hAyLuez4MKj7b8KaUVnnsttKST/image.png)

In my country, India many banks are adopting ripple as a mode of payment to make it faster. This will surely increase its price.

ripples are making ripples in the world now :) thanks for the anlysis sir..very informative..

just hope that they dont dump

What website do you use to show you stats on yer fave coins?  I wanna use that app shown in the image above

I think ETH he will return to second place in the coming days

great one......../////////

I think that like me, many of us were surprised by the growth of Ripple in the last days. It shows us how unpredictable the world of Cryptomoney is. I think many will regret not having bought a few thousand tokens when they were worth nothing

I think that like me, many of us were surprised by the growth of Ripple in the last days. It shows us how unpredictable the world of Cryptomoney is. I think many will regret not having bought a few thousand tokens when they were worth nothing

I had no idea Stellar was growing at such a fast rate like that. That may be another one that I have to start taking a look into.

What is exceptionally stunning however is that [Bitcoin's market cap dominance hit all time low with 38% at the moment of the writing of this comment!](https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/#dominance-percentage)

Moreover: Ripple's market cap is $90B, Bitcoin's market cap is $220B, meaning that Bitcoin's only 2.4 times the size of Ripple. Proportionally, it means that right now, what Ripple is to Bitcoin is the same what Steem is to Bitshares or Lisk is to Monero.

Buy LTC, BTC now :D

pfew ripple did very well indeed haha :)

as we see more and more banks get behind ripple and stellar we should see these coins rise even more still  a good buy  for the long haul. dont miss out people you might be kicking yourselves in the head