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Title: Ripple Post by: ironstove on May 09, 2013, 01:41:56 PM What are your thoughts on it?
Title: Re: Ripple Post by: BTC Books on May 09, 2013, 01:53:40 PM Ripple is to Bitcoin as the Indianapolis 500 is to walking down to the local pub.
You can't afford the car you're driving, and are forced to rely on the good intentions of a major corporate sponsor. You get to drive around in circles really fast, without ever appearing to get anywhere. ...and you can't have a beer while you're doing it. Title: Re: Ripple Post by: ehmdjii on May 09, 2013, 02:01:44 PM just in case anyone cares. someone is hacking ripple accounts quite successfully:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=200066.0 Title: Re: Ripple Post by: chiropteran on May 09, 2013, 02:03:40 PM It's a money-grab. It's about as useful as any pre-mined altcoin.
Title: Re: Ripple Post by: ElectricMucus on May 09, 2013, 02:30:40 PM Ripple has the potential to supersede Bitcoin and actually archive the thing Bitcoiners are dreaming.
The reason it is so widely attacked is the fear of Bitcoin investors to lose their profits. They only see XRP as some sort of Bitcoin alternative (well it's not but as for the investment part it might as well be) and then continue to bad-mouth the rest of Ripple. Title: Re: Ripple Post by: ple on May 09, 2013, 02:57:02 PM It's going to be interesting if fully open source.
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