Quote from: coinpr0n on April 16, 2015, 10:20:08 AM

Quote from: albert11 on April 15, 2015, 11:06:46 PM

Didn't know ripple was created in 2004, make sense that the market cap is bigger then but why has this crypto not taken off in 11 years?it enables secure, instant and nearly free global financial transactions of any size with no chargebacks , that's already pretty revolutionnary isn't it? and that's the main reasons average joe will use crypto other than traditional method.
Does it means ripple doesn't even use the blockchain? why is it even called cryptocurrencies ? is it source code open?

thanks

The market cap is not bigger because it was started in 2004 (whatever that means). Bitcoin's supply of coins is currently ~14M coins. Ripple's supply is ~31B coins. That's a 'B' for billion. Ripple could be worth a grain of sand it would still have one of the bigger market caps.

I don't think supply of a currencies has anything to do with the market cap , the market cap is just how much fiat money has been invested/bought into crypto. Available supply only affects the price.

For example if bitcoin available supply were 31B coins the market cap would still be the same but the price of 1 bitcoin would not.

It makes sense that a cryptocurrencies that's been here longer has a bigger market cap in that ripple has had 5 more years to attract investors