There's no way that Ripple will take bitcoin over. In fact, I think that ripple will be facing a strong set of losses soon. People don't realize that it's centralized and that there's a guy controlling the entire coin. It's not really a cryptocurrency in that sense. In the case that Ripple actually does go past Bitcoin, I don't think it'll last that long. If anything, that means that the altcoins would have risen to a point that a better coin like ethereum or of the like would take bitcoin's place.

Ripple is NOT minable, so what's the  comparison?

Given Ripple must be bought it means NO privacy, it means that 100% ownership is tracked by GOV since birth, what's the point of this?

ONLY one point comes to mind, a replacement for US Dollar could be ripple, so replace one shit fiat, for another, good game,

If it can't be mined, then its ownership aint' private, then its not a crypto,

What the hell is RIPPLE? Its a shit-token, and its worth is less than shit

I think if bitcoin ecosystem does not act quick in solving bitcoin's inherent problems, then Bitcoin will definitely be dethroned from the top spot this 2018. It might not necessarily be by Ripple as there are trust issues with ripple being more of a centralised coins.

Personally I think that is highly likely. Its not going to happen early this year but lets expect it from late this year to early next year. It might not be ripple that overtakes bitcoin. It might be a totally new coin but watch the space.

While Ripple probably won't surpass Bitcoin any time soon (famous last words), it is however likely that BTC will start losing it's luster as new, faster, more energy efficient currencies emerge. It's just a matter of time.

one thing that some people still don't realize is that Ripple's market cap is growing not Ripple itself. all these years there has been zero adoption of it apart from traders buying them on exchanges, keeping it there to dump as fast as possible.
nobody trusts a centralized coin where the owner can put his hand in your pocket and steal your money. if we wanted to use centralized money we would have stuck to Visa and the similar ones.

as for market cap, there is a good chance that Ripple is going to release another 1-10 billion coins soon which will increase its market cap another 26 billion or so. and in order to have bitcoin's market cap Ripple only has to pump to $5-$6 but still it is going to remain a centralized shitcoin.

I saw some critics that Ripple had issue in centralization and I think in the future, that will be the problem of Ripple. Though it surpass ethereum as the second place in top cryptocurrency and its market cap is the most largest altcoin now. Ripple can never be dethroned bitcoin. However, if the ripple continuously grows up then there will be a possibilty to overtake bitcoin. For me, if Ripple will just make a short time if it becomes the first cryptocurrency.

In any case, what is happening now in the crypto currency market is very bad. A centralized coin such as ripple can not be so close to the top position of capitalization, otherwise the decentralization of the crypto currency will soon come to an end. Although at a price it can not be compared with other old coins, however, the capitalization of ripple is frightening. The coin itself is good and quite useful for the banking sector, however it is centralized and its quantity is printed at the discretion of certain individuals. This contradicts the basic principles of the existence of a decentralized crypto currency.

nobody mentions it because they are not accepting bitcoin "widely".
there are some banks behind the project that "Created" ripple so obviously some of them may accept it. but it is worth mentioning that at least 2 of the already left ripple and started their own version of it and stopped being involved with it in any form.

these are not small disadvantages! these are the basics of any cryptocurrency.

something with this many HUGE disadvantages will never go anywhere.

you just say this because you have bought a lot of it and want to become rich. and there is nothing wrong with getting rich from altcoin pumps but spreading wrong information to fool others into possibly buying the bubble and losing money is not right.

Worst case scenario will be Bitcoin vs Ripple (decentralized vs centralized) but i still believe in bitcoin that it will still hold its position as the number 1 coin that it being used by the people, as far as the future is concern we cant say that bitcoin will still be the top performer but hopefully it still is.