completely fair statement about Ripple and how the levels of adoption related to traditionally established institutions is definitely going to play more and more of a factor going into 2018 and beyond ; im still skeptical of the centralized nature in principle, but clearly ppl have made gains in these last few months
personally im unsure how BTC is going to perform longterm at this point ; being first to market is a huge advantage and the name recognition is unparalleled ; but my g/f just mentioned AOL ... and im reminded of the dot.com bubble
i want BTC to survive, but 2018/19 could truly be a huge year for 'alts' ; just hopefully alts with valid functionality and use-cases and not just purely speculation