Could XRP (Ripple) Be the Next Bitcoin?
I think that we can stop reading the article after this one sentence... Ripple holds a portion of the XRP supply, meaning the token itself is not fully decentralized like Bitcoin is.
I do not know if anyone ever thought that xrp would be the same as bitcoin or would be the next bitcoin but just by looking at the two, the differences are too noticeable. If you want to ever compare an altcoin (or god forbid a memecoin) to bitcoin, just write it out and notice how foolish you sound.
Sometimes people can just be making certain assumptions due to their taught or maybe a few information they have been exposed to without trying to make actual research to see i fthey have complete information or they have the actual fact to what they think they know and so they turn out to make assumptions on things they think should be. Ripple has come in very handy to solve a certain problem of which it has been very helpful with but it does not make it a better replacement or even an actual replacement for Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is very much decentralized and can serve the same purpose Ripple does serve with further adoptions but Ripple can not be all on handy as much as Bitcoin so the comparison thereof is not correct enough, we should rather respect that both cons are doing well in their various fits and are just as useful as they should be rather than raking one to be better than the other or seeing one as a replacement for the other.