No doubt Ripple is a gem in crypto and they have such big partners! Even a few days ago they got a huge fund from a partner again! But Ripple can't go alone, I believe all these coins are dependent on Bitcoin! So, if Bitcoin price sees a bull run like 2017, then why not for Ripple? I hope Ripple will hit 5$ this time!
Agree with you, if want XRP to break ATH 2017, BTC must first go up and pass 20k USD. Because this whole market is dependent on BTC and if BTC keeps going down like it is now, I doubt that XRP and all altcoins in this market will never repeat ATH again.
Bitcoin will go up and pass $20k, and I am sure about that. But for XRP, I am not sure if the price can repeat the same highest price again unless if there is a big pump for XRP. If that happens, XRP price will have an easy way to increase the price so the price will be back to the higher price. But the problem is, we don't know if the price will stay at that price because we know that in the crypto, everything can be possible.