I should have added the recent rise in ripple seems to have been causedby
1. a post on reddit claiming that Coinbase was to list it now denied by coin base
2. a false belief that large scale adoption of ripple had occured in the banking system what has actually happened is a wide spread use of the ripple messaging system and some use of ripple for transmission. As would be expected after each initial use of actual ripple they stopped to do a postmorttem on it. One of the challenges they have to face is can it do large quantities at any speed . Of the cryptos Bitcoin has handled the largest quantity of transactions by far however this is a at a cost that should be fixed by the introduction of lightning, You can see ethereum has problems in this area when use of crypto kitties went crazy.
