I think you can't compare Ripple and Bitcoin, so Ripple is no treat to BTC too. Ripple is heavily centralized, wasn't decentralization not the most important feature of cryptocurrencies?
Beside that the Bcash flippening FUD was a real treat to BTC, because they could steel the miners and undermine the security of BTC. When Ripple gets bigger than Bitcoin it is no problem because BTC will still work as before.
Short term shit coins get hyped, but over the long term the best one will win. And this is still BTC.
I agree with you, @michiel. I don't see a solid reason for XRP to go up like this. Banks are buying their XRP from the company with a discount. So it is only Hype.
On the other hand, BTC is still unable to solve the scalability problem! This is giving a big chance to competitors.
Yes you are right, BTC has its problems but LTC, Dash ect. are competitors but Ripple isn't. I think people that buy Ripple because the problems of BTC are missing the point.
100% agreed.
if coinbase add XRp then XRP goes to moon .
It might, but it could also be 'buy the rumors, sell the news', because the rise has been astronomical already especially for a shitcoin as Ripple is. Look back on the charts and you will see a huge bull run followed by a crash of 95% (!) happend with ripple before.