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Analysts say 5% of Bitcoin’s flows could spark XRP’s next explosive rally. XRP’s smaller market cap magnifies price moves up to 13x versus Bitcoin. ETF inflows could accelerate capital rotation and trigger strong upside. Crypto market watchers are debating what analysts are calling the “hydraulic pipe effect,” a theory that explains why XRP could surge with only a fraction of the capital that typically flows into Bitcoin.  The idea is straightforward in that XRP’s smaller market size acts like a narrow pipe compared to Bitcoin’s wider one. When even a modest amount of capital moves from the larger pipe into the smaller one, the pressure magnifies and produces outsized results. Dr. Jim Willie’s Analogy On the Black Swan Capitalist podcast, Dr. Jim Willie laid out the case. He compared Bitcoin’s massive market cap to a wide hydraulic pipe, and XRP’s smaller capitalization to a narrower one. According to him, if just 5% of Bitcoin’s capital rotated into XRP, the effect could send the token surging. The science behind the analogy is based on physics, that is, an area scales with the square of the radius. Apply that logic to capital flows, and suddenly XRP’s smaller size looks like a multiplier waiting to happen. Related: XRP Buy Signal Flashes; History Backs 70% Chance of Major Price Rally Rob Cunningham Adds Market Math Crypto analyst Rob Cunningham expanded on Willie’s point by putting numbers to it. He noted that Bitcoin’s market is about 13 times larger than XRP’s. Therefore, he explained that the same amount of money that barely shifts Bitcoin’s price will have 13 times more effect on XRP’s price. Meanwhile, Cunningham clarified that although scientific assumptions and mathematical calculations are clear, several factors determine the outcome of events in the cryptocurrency market. Particularly, he added that smaller order books and…

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