While it undoubtedly made a lot of money for those who invested in in early and while the price was low (read, mostly bankers), a lot more people have been burned with its hype and then sudden price drop.
See, this is not the first time people got burned on Ripple. It happened before, it happened now and it will happen in the future when they see the chance to grab more money.
This time a lot of new investments came in late 2017 and the money flowed yet again into bankers pocket.
If you really want that new house and be free from bankers influence, the best way is to vote with your money and choose something else.
Ripple should be removed from coinmarketcap.com
While I disagree with your kind of Schadenfreude, I agree with your last sentence... It should be removed from coinmarketcap.com because it's just not a cryptocurrency...
I don't really care if people want to invest in it or not, can't blame people for trying to win games from the banksters, but it should be called out for what it is:
https://cryptoyoda1338.wordpress.com/2018/01/04/the-truth-about-ripple/quote:
XRP is 100% premined, Ripple holds 60% of the supply, controls which nodes are selected as trustworthy to confirm transactions, while they have paid nothing to create those tokens that people are so willingly buying at $4+ per piece and thereby make the creators insanely rich. Let us call it what it really is, digital fiat, the renewed version of the debt-based traditional fiat system, leveraged by latest technology which eventually has nothing to do with cryptocurrency whatsoever.