Flippening & Flappening in Cryptoverse… What are they about?

The fight for supremacy among the top Crypto coins

Just before you think I am blabbering in my sleep, these are two actual terms coined in the Cryptoverse to present two possible scenarios, but on two different sets of digital coins. Back in February, I wrote about Flippening — this was the time when the Cryptocurrencies current & ongoing price decline had just started, after the price peak reached in December 2017.

The Alt. coins still commanded more than 50% of the market share with Ethereum posing a serious threat to the supremacy of the Crypto kingpin Bitcoin (BTC). A lot has happened since then & Flippening actually did happen but not between Bitcoin & Ethereum. Let’s explain Flippening to people who don’t know what the term means before moving on to the rest of the story.

Flippening refers to a possible future event when Bitcoin is replaced from the top spot of the Crypto world by some Alt.coin — which in this case was touted to be Ethereum with a website dedicated to this possible scenario called Flippening Watch. This was the time when Bitcoin was still much more energy-intensive to mine, had high transactions costs & processing time was really slow, while Ethereum was the star of the Crypto block with an ICO platform which provided the launching pad…