Bitcoin has recovered and the price is going to $17,000. Its still up to 36.2%, although still below 40%, but there is a sign that it will continue to dominate the crypto market because the price is going up again. Ripple needs to double its marketcap to really topple bitcoin, however, the last 48 hours, the price of it is going down really fast and I think some investors are again moving to bitcoin. I can't really comprehend people thinking that bitcoin can be overthrown. It been in its existence for the last 9 years and no one has really challenge it. As for Ripple, its just another pump-and-dump coin. Once bitcoin march to $20,000, it would be really difficult for other coins to really catch up with. If there's a coin that I think that should overtook bitcoin is Ethereum, smart contracts will be the future.
Ripple is a large infrastructure project. He can not be just another pump-and-dump coin. When bitcoin becomes again 20 000 complexities will arise first of all again in bitcoin , bitcoins will have huge payments for transactions. How to avoid this is not at all clear. I agree with you that ETH is the future, for me it looks like the most working coin now.