What does the future look like?
As these two juggernauts go head to head for world dominance?
The future is actually quite certain, it is the getting there that is hard to pin down.
And you could truly state that the journey is more important than the destination. So, i will try to point out signpost that we will probably see on the way. However, this war will have a lot of twists and turns. And the enemy, those mother WEFers will fight with everything they have. If they cannot keep the people in darkness and maintain the old ways of control, they feel that T.H.E.Y. will be no more. (however, it is just a feeling. Narcissists feel the need to be in control, like their life depends on it. They will probably take many short lives till they learn to overcome and join the peaceful human race)
So… who will win this battle?
XRP's path
While the BRICS have been getting lots of attention every time they move, Ripple has partnered with many central banks. Many more than BRICS. Ripple is working at setting up cross-border payments and setting up CBDCs for central banks all over the world.
Ripple has been unlocking XRP every time-scale, and selling it to banksters around the world.
There seems to be an internal price of XRP and an external price of XRP. The internal price being 100s of dollars, and the external price now just peaking over $3. This will be important for money exchanging with cross-border payments. The banks need a stable price so that they do not lose in transactions because of instability in the market.
But this really brings up a huge issue. Will the XRP that we are trading on exchanges now suddenly rise to the internal price? Or will there be internal and external XRP? If so, then suddenly, our external XRP might become worthless. (There are many other rumors about something locking up the currently traded (external) XRP. If such happens, then we would have seen XRP go up and up and up, and then its market price crater. But, what will become of the ETFs?
So, banks want a corporation that takes responsibility for the money moving smoothly. They like to externalize the risk. So, if we were looking for the tool that all these companies and banks are going to use to create stablecoins, then Ripple is one obvious choice.
We will see bunches of stablecoins as everyone and their brother seems to produce their own. It will be funny if they are all on the Ripple blockchain. It will be tragic if they are all on the Ripple blockchain, and they are not interoperable / exchangeable.
XRP will be YUGE!
Bitcoin's path
Bitcoin seems to becoming the world's savings account. And the one paying the highest ROI.
Bitcoin was supposed to be digital money, but the groups controlling its growth never allowed it to become fast, or handle a lot of throughput. So, instead, it has become bitcoin's strength. The people that want to protect their buying power, want it to move slowly, and become utterly stable. 1 BTC = 1 BTC.
When handling large amounts of money, you want to use the safest, surest (often slowest) method of sending it. This is what bitcoin looks like it was tailor made to be. So, we will see corporations and govern-cements settling debt with bitcoin. Huge purchases like mansions and yachts will be done in bitcoin.
However, this will make bitcoin's price super-duper high. So high that a satoshi will be real wealth for lower classes. Not like a penny, but something that buys groceries for a week. We will be paying for things in pico-sats and nano-sats.
The Lightning network will become something more. Something much more, because there will need to be layers where people can store satoshis. Amounts that are now considered dust. Amounts that are much smaller than the transaction fees. And, to do this, lightning + cross-chain platforms + several levels of coins will be created. It seems complicated today, but it will be pretty much seamless in the future.
Bitcoin will be the biggest financial thing ever.
Humanity's path
What is happening with humanity is that we are exposing evil, and working out how we will do exchanges in the future. A future without banksters taking a cut at every level. A future without banksters being able to manipulate the money supply. A future where you control your money.
The banksters are written out of the system. They aren't needed. All they have done is corrupt the system, and destroy our wealth. So, of course, they are going to be removed. This is inevitable. Think of it as world-wide, cosmic Jesus, turning over tables and driving banksters out of the temple / out of our lives.
We will be able to interact with whom we want, and to give money to anyone, where and when we want.
A tip economy emerges.
Where you tip that nice uncle for watching the kids for a while. Or you see someone picking up trash and making he neighborhood better. We will tip people for giving us excellent directions. And our money system has to handle this, smoothly and efficiently. Much much much better than coins in our pockets do now.
We now have something far better than paper fiat currency. In the future, it will be even better.
And for those who believe we are at the mercy of the internet and those who control it: Now that we have knowledge of the internet, and so many rely on it, it will not go away. And if it does, it will be built back quickly, better and stronger. And soon, we will have internet everywhere on the Earth. An internet that is not reliant on cables, and is not blockable. It will be a very P2P structure, as opposed to client-server structure we have now.
(Since humans can choose their futures, there may be some people who choose the Mad Max future, where we all go back to the stone age. But that is not for most people. We, and the universe, are designed to grow. Going back to the stone age, when we do not have to is really going backwards in our growth. Further, the Age of Aquarius is about mental growth)
So, here is what happens in the future.
XRP is no where to be found, and bitcoin is getting upgraded to super-bitcoin. Important things that we haven't even thought about yet are added to it.
XRP will go way up in price. And this brings life changing wealth to many people who are ready to use it. Starting businesses. Building communities/homesteads. Leaving the old system. However, if you hold onto XRP, thinking to hold it forever, it goes away. Probably something like the banksters conspire to lock out too many users, and people just abandon XRP for better things.
In the further future, money isn't anything like our concepts today. From our viewpoint, the future society may be described as money-less. However, we haven't even gotten all the people onboard with bitcoin, when bitcoin is a million times better then the Federal Reserve Notes we have been forced to use.
So, to put it into number terms:
Bitcoin goes to a million per, and then on towards 10 M, but the dollar stops being a benchmark before then.
XRP goes to several hundred or a thousand per. A great many people will be very rich. Even by the end of 2025, very rich. And then, Ripple does something to shoot themselves in the foot, and XRP dies.