XRP Can Flip Bitcoin, Says Schwartz, But $1.49 Trillion Stands In Way

Ripple CTO emeritus David Schwartz said XRP (xrp) can eventually pass Bitcoin (btc) by market value, a flip that would mean closing a $1.49 trillion gap.

Key Points:

• Schwartz said an XRP flippening would come from XRP rising faster, not from Bitcoin collapsing.
• Bitcoin is worth roughly 17.7 times more than XRP, and matching it would put XRP near $25.10.
• XRP funds took in $1.55 million on Sept. 8, the only U.S. crypto ETFs with positive flows that day.

Schwartz Backs XRP Flippening Case

A participant in an X Spaces discussion asked Schwartz whether he truly believed XRP could overtake Bitcoin, and he answered yes. He then attached a condition to it.

"It would happen from XRP growing faster than Bitcoin," Schwartz said. He argued that the digital asset market will keep expanding for years, letting the largest tokens climb together rather than fight over a fixed pool of investor money. The XRP Ledger, he said, should capture more of that growth because it settles faster and supports payment features Bitcoin cannot.

Schwartz, who helped design the XRP Ledger in 2012 and left the chief technology job at Ripple last year, called the outcome likelier than not without setting a timeline.

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