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Any advice for a newbie trying Ripple? ???

Thanks, in advance.

:D i think nobody is really understanding ripple.
i tried to read the whole documentationt. i understand maybe 90% of it
BUT i dont understand how any other currency than XRP is gettin in and out of the system..

if bitcoin is too complicated for the masses.. then ripple is rocket science!

I see what you mean.
It looks like access to "gateways" is still "coming soon"

Last week I uses WeExchange to put a small amount of bitcoins into my Ripple account, and it wasn't hard - but I have forgotten how I did it. I'm sure if I want to do more I can figure it out easy enough.

Its the internal deal making and handling that I'm still fuzzy on, and I don't really have the time right now to dig into it.

I see lots of possibilities with Ripple.

Now if I can find someone or an exchange to actually buy Ripples, then I might be able to do something with it. ???

Hi, I am a total newbie in both bitcoin and ripple and I am not eligible for the ripple giveaway, give me some ripples please. my address is rwWeR2EqB5Dm6mwzqc4FJa7sVjCETgUELj   thanks in advance.

Isn't Ripple what Sanford drank on the TV show Sanford & Son?

Can somebody send me ripple to get started and I'll hit them back.

rBNyzojknhmeLJ6QBQqJyJPre32z4pLwdL

Is there an easy way to buy XRP?

I dont think they are officially selling them yet. Pretty hard to get especially if you have no bitcoins. Buying it with ordinary cash is kinda hard

But is there a way to buy them for bitcoin? And what's the approximate price for BTC/XRP?

Now there is a blast from the past!   Or was it TV Land?

The best I can figure out it's a convenient way to exchange currencies.

You buy XRP in USD, send the XRP to a business, friends or family and they sell the XRP for their currency. I guess the idea is that eventually people will cease using XRP to exchange for another currency and will begin trading directly in XRP?

Ripple confuses me too.

Remember, Ripple is still beta software; once they release it, everything should be mainstreamed and understandable, with easy to understand documentation for what to do with it and how to do it.

Should is the key operator here.

Definitely plenty of potential

I'm interested in the Ripple platform, seems like it could be a good alternative for transferring money into Argentinian Pesos at the "blue rate" without fees. I'm interested in trying the platform and seeing how it evolves, so if anyone would like to spare a few Ripples, I would appreciate it: rBdVPECNfrgDfpj5WHJBchtv6gZ4Bo6QMR

Yea, pretty neat concept.

I figured this out. I am using bitstamp to fund the account using bitcoin. I found out they have a gateway with Ripple.

I am waiting for the TT to post on my account. I tell bitstamp how many bitcoins I want to send to Ripple,

Then as I understand it I have to grant the gateway a trust limit to receive the Bitcoins in Ripple.

However I am new to Ripple so everything I say could be wrong.

Market price? I have no clue. But I will take any Ripples for free, no limit.

rBY82V7hf9mkZ3vZGvB6LPzjsBE8zrvMTR

It looks interesting, but I wish I knew how to use it!

If someone will help out with 300 XRP, I'll return a much bigger amount. Just need a way in.

rPxxmg5yjGmFhybcZ4eBKUEX1z7gdtLDyd

https://www.bitstamp.net/market/xrp/

You can put money on through bank transer, bitstamp code, bitinstant transfer or bitcoin deposit.

Is it just me, or does it seem that one needs 300XRP to "activate" an account in order to buy more XRP.. I don't quite understand. I'm willing to convert some BTC into XRP (I have an empty account on ripple.com) but I don't see how to get started.

I'll sell you 350 xrp for 0.15btc with escrow if you want

Too much currency risck to kill all currency

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Buy ripple with bitcoin on therocktrading.com if its any help to you.

　

Loving trading BTC/XRP with the ripple client. Have made quite a few coins!   ;D

Were to download ripple client?

only in-browser at the moment

If you can help it, don't use it soley as a means to get bitcoin.  Ripple is used better when it's used to actually manage things outside of money -- keeping track of who needs to chip in for coffee, and so on.  Don't put too much trust in anyone, including exchanges -- only trust what you would be willing to lose.

Try villages.cc instead if you're having trouble with Ripple.com

You may want to read https://ripple.com/wiki/Reserves

tl; dr you need a minimum amount of XRP to
* Start an account
* Create a connection to someone else
* Send a payment through the network.

hmm never heard of it

My opinion that Ripple will not live by three reason:

1. No benefits for nodes to support the network. A few people will do it for free.

2. OpenCoin holds almost all of XRP, it is impossible to put it in a circulation in fair way for to satisfy all of participant.

3. Too complicated for understand.

Ripple is going to be just another token system

The trust and liquidity providing features are also flawed.

From the Ripple.com wiki:

Who will run validating nodes?

ie enough people that this, while in theory is a valid concern, isn't going to be much of a serious one.


There's always going to be a way to satisfy some(at the cost of others) in distribution of wealth - this wealth distribution problem is not unique to ripple, and not even really unique to currency.  However you're correct in that if it's not distributed in a way that satisfies enough people Ripple will not succeed.  It does not have to satisfy all participants, however -- just enough of them.  Network effects and other factors will take care of the rest.


As far as the interface is concerned, that will be improved as more businesses get involved, and the server is released.  As far as Ripple itself...well maybe.  But then again, the internet and email is pretty complicated, but people figured those out.


This sounds like semantics.

i tried to read the whole documentationt. i understand maybe 90% of it

I have a Ripple account, with Ripples but don't know what to do with it :/

Do you ever conduct trade with anyone?  Ever buy anything?  Do you work for a living?

Where I can get ripple free to active my ripple account :(. I can't repply in topic Ripple Giveaway :( I don't know why , hic

 mailforhost because you are a newbie....and repeating the same question multiple times in the newbie forum won't help your cause.


read https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=177133.0

Enjoy!  I think that's enough to activate an account.

how much is the  ripple giveaway?

Ripple is a waste of time IMO. And hard to understand.

You should get an address by going to www.ripple.com/client then you have to activate your account by persuading someone kind amd trusting to send you XRP.  You should then move some BTC that you own to Ripple, convert them to XRP and then of course pay back your original funder, plus a generous tip.

Of course, I am at that stage so if anyone would like to create some karma, please send me a few hundred XRP and I will of course pay you back!

rPHtEbMmjtdb3epZCBkWmkpesfejetuyAm is my Ripple address.

Many thanks

Antony

I come here just for the free Ripples

My Ripple address is r4b8N2ZdHk1CzuPGaqBQoPGU3AV5TWijZr

Thanks

Throw a rock into a pond then.  They will hold more value than this scheme.