On Monday (April 26), popular pseudo-anonymous crypto analyst and trader “Kaleo” talked about $XRP’s latest breakout against Bitcoin.
He said:
More importantly $XRP is breaking out vs. $BTC pic.twitter.com/sdSKcETrTt
— K A L E O (@CryptoKaleo) April 26, 2021
He went on to add:
$XRP sending higher after the retest pic.twitter.com/4jslGLFY2A
— K A L E O (@CryptoKaleo) April 27, 2021
Earlier today, highly respected macro-economist and crypto trader Alex Krüger also commented on $XRP’s recent price action since Bitcoin started rallying in the closing hours of last weekend after dropping to as low as $47,000:
$XRP maximalism paid off. $XRP as well as many other alts outperformed bitcoin by 4x on this bounce. pic.twitter.com/j7xigOo3Ns
— Alex Krüger (@krugermacro) April 27, 2021
So, how well has $XRP performed against $BTC since the start of 2021?
Data from TradingView indicates that (as of 07:10 UTC on April 27), on crypto exchange Bitstamp, $XRP is currently trading around $0.00002592, which means that it is up 242% vs $BTC so far in 2021.