Ripple and Stellar Lumens Up Over 11% and 24%

Today I was very pleased to see 2 of my long hold crypto currencies Ripple and Stellar Lumens going up. With Ripple the upswing is possibly due to the Forbes article that features the CEO of Ripple.

You can read the article here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/10/04/ripples-ceo-on-cryptocurrencies-and-the-future-of-xrp/#6fa5f08537cd

As of this post Ripple is up over a 11% at $0.23.

Whatever is the reason it seems to also have a greater positive effect on Stellar Lumens (some call it a clone of Ripple). Which is up over 24% at $0.14.

Both outcomes are more than welcome for me as I these are long term holds that I have bought into earlier this year. Hopefully this is not a quick pump and dump.