With 2017 now firmly in the rearview mirror, it's time to take stock of the most successful digital currencies in the world. ;year. Bitcoin drew a lot of titles on its way to a brief stop at $ 20,000, but in terms of percentage gains, it does not even crack the top 10.

Former altcoins like Dash have posted impressive gains, reaching a record 13.900% in mid-December record of all time. The price of Dash fell slightly, ending the year with a gain of 9,265% to take fifth place in the rankings. Similarly, Ethereum had a record year, setting up at number six with 9 162% gains. Litecoin, one of the oldest altcoins, finished the year with a gain of 5 045% and took the ninth place.

The new pieces also performed very well, with NEM and Ardour taking the second and third places respectively. Stellar, Binance Coin, OmiseGo and Golem round out the top ten. Bitcoin took 14th place with an increase of 1318%.

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Doing more than a ripple

Ripple, the centralized digital banking currency, won the gold medal with an impressive yield of 36 018% at past year A $ 1,000 investment in Bitcoin on January 1, 2017 would have yielded $ 13,180 by the end of the year, and that same $ 1,000 invested in Ripple was worth $ 360,018.

Although Ripple had good growth In the second quarter, the real outbreak took place in the last weeks of December, when the currency took second place compared to Ethereum, although Bitcoin made the one of the newspapers this year she can not compare herself at Ripple, price performance.

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What about 2018?

With a total market capitalization of cryptocurrency reaching a record $ 673 billion today, nothing Makes the 2017 Rally come to an end, Max Keizer, a digital currency enthusiast and a journalist, estimates that the digital currency market's ceiling will reach $ 5 billion or more, with Bitcoin reaching $ 100,000. Bitcoin's six-figure path is based on its digital gold status.It argues that other currencies are better suited to focus on payments:

"Dash is becoming the payment crypto rail while Bitcoin claims as Gold 2.0. I suggest to those who are frustrated with the Bitcoin debate to adopt Dash for payments and let Bitcoin Core continue to work on Gold 2.0. "

The famous stock breeder Ronnie Moas is also optimistic about Bitcoin, the motto will see prices above $ 28,000:

" The number (Bitcoin available) is much lower than what people think it is. Much of Bitcoin has been lost, some has not been mined and many people like me do not want to sell their bitcoin at any price.

And what about the altcoins? The so-called "dominance" of Bitcoin is currently only 37.5%, which is close to the most The measure of Bitcoin dominance is a measure of Bitcoin's "dominance" over the total market capitalization of cryptocurrency.The current market capitalization of Bitcoin of $ 250 billion is divided by the market capitalization of $ 673 billion. of all cryptocurrencies combined.This netted the percentage of Bitcoin dominance – 37.2% at the time of the press.One year ago, the domination of Bitcoin exceeded 90%.