Originally posted by Tustin
Opinions aside, you should really be paying attention to market cap and supply of these coins. I see a bunch of people be like “oh wow, Ripple is super cheap and it probably has a chance to become the next bitcoin”. When you look at market cap, this is the total amount of coins available multiplied by the current value. At the moment, Ripple is at a $138B market cap while Bitcoin is only at $254B. Of course it’s possible for Ripple to be higher than Bitcoin, but even then that’s not much more growth. The market cap would literally be larger than the entirety of the US stock market if Ripple would ever match Bitcoin’s current price. I like crypto as much as the next guy but I don’t think that’s likely to happen with a single coin.
Not trying to act like you thought the price would get that high; I just felt like clarifying this for anyone who reads this thread thinking Ripple is a bargain. There’s more to crypto prices than just the price itself.
Yeah i think a lot of the concepts are quite hard to understand and you'd need to do a lot of research and understanding into it if you wanted to make a lot of money properly, personally i just kinda of see it as a game more than anything, not too bothered if i lose everything or win 200% profit. Just for fun :p