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 Transaction speed and fees: This area is where Ripple really starts to shine. Bitcoin’s transaction speed can sometimes go up to an hour depending on fees. And the fees can reach $40 depending on demand.Ripple’s transactions, on the other hand, can settle in as little as four seconds. Fee-wise, even when the demand was high in mid-2021, Ripple’s transaction fees averaged $0.003 — a fraction of that of Bitcoin. You can compare different cryptocurrencies’ historical transaction fees at https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactionfees-btc-xrp.html.

 Number of transactions per second: At any given second, you can make around four Bitcoin transactions. Enter Ripple and recent wonder-coin Solana, and raise the number to 1,500 and 29,000 respectively. Although some Bitcoin forks aim to resolve this issue, at the time of this writing, Ripple and Solana are well ahead of the game.

 Coin amount limits: Bitcoin and other mineable cryptocurrencies have finite numbers of coins, which come into the market only through mining. But XRP is limited to the 100 billion coins in circulation now, largely to appeal to Ripple’s (the company’s) biggest clients, which are large financial institutions.