The last few days were very positive for Ethereum (ETH) and price increased by almost 60%. That's a big sign for ETH to have a claim for taking back the second position on coinmarketcap. XRP overtook ETH a few weeks ago and this fast reaction of ETH would be a positive sign for the entire crypto community. It was always a questionable move that XRP could overtake ETH and the recent price trend would back the importance of ETH as second crypto behind ETH.
For XRP, being very overvalued, this can result in another problem and damage of trust. In opposite, ETH was very undervalued based on it's use-case and offers an opportunity to buy some cheap ETH.
What's your opinion on this issue? Will ETH surpass XRP and stay in second place?
When the ripple coin overtook ethereum for the last time in terms of capitalization, the difference in their capitalization was about three billion dollars. Today the ripple capitalization rate is $ 14.93 billion, and ethereum is $ 14.37 billion. Now the difference in their capitalization is minimal, just over half a billion dollars and continues to shrink. Considering that on January 16, ethereum is expected to introduce various improvements, this coin will definitely definitely be ahead of ripple again in terms of capitalization. There is no doubt about it.
Of course ETH is sure to return to second place, there is no doubt, I think that perhaps a temporary decline at the beginning of the year below $ 100 but it is not for long and in 2019 it will reach a good price of$600-700