Yes! And all credit for that goes to bitcoin network. Increasing numbers of unconfirmed transactions coupled with insanely high fees fueled the growth of Ripple in last couple of days. Ripple is technologically much superior than bitcoin and people have started investing in big numbers it seems. If we can't find a solution to the bitcoin network issues, we will be doomed pretty soon. I was a long term investor of bitcoin, but yesterday I invested in Ripple seeing its growth. Recently I came to know that the testing of lightening network was successful on bitcoin network. We need to implement it soon to get back on track.