shilling? in bitcointalk? nobody does that. but then there's everyone.  |
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and how much jail time did those execs do who were responsible for the 2008 global financial crisis?
NONE.
mother fuckers.
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still no news as to why XRP went up. could this be the driver of XRP's recent rise? charles xue: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Xue he confirmed that he is investing in ripple last september. so he probably made is move recently, then traders being traders, pumped the shit out of XRP. what do you guys think? |
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Thanks for your hard work. Let's see a screen shot of this bank transferring BTC soon.
that would be possible right? fidor -> ripple -> btc wallet...? |
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not just bitcoin, but the whole of crypto and all the tech being developed. |
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Soon the great btc tulip mania is over  Bitcoin going under 100$ and never going back up where it was Leaving believers to believe, traders, investors and corporations moving on but what if it goes up again? |
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who knows. this could be a pump, china being the driver or there must be something behind this move. hoping for the latter.
and no, XRP and STR cannot be frozen. ripple has a freeze feature for gateways' IOU's that they themselves issued, not XRP. stellar has no freeze feature.
Thanks for clearing this up! no problem. |
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its a long road ahead for both camps. ripple labs' codius smart programs/contracts project is pretty cool. i wonder what stellar's move is to compete with codius... exciting times.
Yes I agree. competition is always good. and the code is open source. the world will be a much better place for it. |
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it's a good thing you pointed this out, i hope someone from ripple labs is lurking these forums and give us an answer. I'm really trying to muster up the energy for a proper response but to be honest, the negativity on this forum towards anything that isn't bitcoin or promising overnight riches makes it not worth the hassle of posting. Any discussion of Ripple is met with false accusations of centralization, scamming, or shilling. Why should anyone waste their time writing up a lengthy reply? Ripple is going to succeed with or without approval from the bitcointalk peanut gallery. sure. but i think it would be nice to have an answer here. and if ever that question comes up again we could use your reply as reference. ... or maybe show joelkatz the question so he could answer it...? he prolly will have more patience and spare us the time to make a reply. thanks. |
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its a long road ahead for both camps. ripple labs' codius smart programs/contracts project is pretty cool. i wonder what stellar's move is to compete with codius... exciting times.
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well, i think from all the xrp the exchanges are using to buy or sell Bitcoins. So if there is a large volume in bitcoin selling then Ripple will get pumped again... this is what i noticed.
china was the driver. it all starts at btc38 then other exchanges follow. |
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I think it poses a big question --- whether Bitcoin will remain due to it's advantage of being the first or will it be dethroned by others. Fact is that decentralization is the future. Everything that can be decentralized will be decentralized. Ripple is perhaps the last pathetic breath of the centralized money transmitting system that is based on debt (IOUs).
I think the advantage is the key point and bet on the advantage. But even Bitcoin used for real transactions is of course based on IOU. Any money is and always will be. Otherwise it is not money. Bitcoins have nothing to do with IOU's because there is no debt system inside Bitcoin plain and simple. Also, how will the ripple network overcome foul nodes? Essentially the bigger the ripple network grows the higher is a chance that some node will be compromised or will go rogue and run away with money. the nodes could even practise some sick reserve banking. At least with bitcoin it is cool that all the nodes either follow the same protocol or become incompatible. ripple is a much more loose concept. it's a good thing you pointed this out, i hope someone from ripple labs is lurking these forums and give us an answer. |
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I dont like Ripple, seriously you dont own your private key and your funds can be locked by them, it ridiculous perversion of the Bitcoin ideals.
XRP can't be locked? They (Ripple) can lock your account pretty much like paypal; I am not sure about that. Can anyone confirm? Yes the gateways can freeze the IOUs you hold but I don't think ripplelabs can lock your account and prevent you from sending XRPs. I can be wrong as I'm not that familiar with it. yup you're right. and i should point out that some ripple gateways do not like the freeze feature and disabled it. afaik, once it's disabled, you cannot enable it anymore. |
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I dont like Ripple, seriously you dont own your private key and your funds can be locked by them, it ridiculous perversion of the Bitcoin ideals.
XRP can't be locked? They (Ripple) can lock your account pretty much like paypal; I am not sure about that. Can anyone confirm? they can't. when you open a ripple wallet, you get a secret key which only you know. so if it is even possible that somebody can lock your account, all you have to do is go here: https://www.rippletrade.com/#/login, click account recovery then type in your secret key. the client will prompt you to make a new password. as long as you have your secret key, you have full control of your account. |
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Anyone have an idea when I should sell? My wife thinks I'm a fool being involved with these crypto-currencies and sees no value with Stellar unless I can show her I can pull it and show her the cash... but if I do that, I lose whatever continuing value Stellar would gain later on... or is this the "flash in the pan" rise that every coin seems to see once in it's life? Is this it? Anyone have any ideas how high it will go? Gut feelings or whatever. I'd like to hold onto Stellar, but if they crash after this rise, even though I paid nothing for them, it would be a shame to lose all that value...
Or is this "giveaway" (in Jan. '15) going to improve things, monetarily? I don't have any BTC is a local wallet (I have most of it at Cryptsy and a little over in my Xapo wallet), but does that matter or...?
If the Chinese are buying up Stellar like crazy, then eventually they're gonna a sell, right? Big crash! Or are they holding just for the giveaway? Or...? I'd like to take advantage of this free money I have (in Stellar), but not exactly sure how.
trust your feelings.  |
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bitcoin will always be here to stay, and i'll always be a fan. but it's so sad.. some people fail to see that ripple can be used to complement bitcoin.
It WILL be used to complement bitcoin but people will get hurt while bitcoin goes down in price.bah. the market's the market, it will always go up, down or sideways. i'm positive and optimistic BTC will climb above 500 USD. it's only a question of when. hopefully 1st quarter of 2015. that would be a nice start for the year. |
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bitcoin will always be here to stay, and i'll always be a fan. but it's so sad.. some people fail to see that ripple can be used to complement bitcoin.
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mr. britto is smarter than that. he was reverse trolling. The "Britto" doesn't troll  but but it was an opportunity for free advertising. of course it was. Now that is true. However, when you work your ass off on auto-bridging, it will speak for itself. “Ray. People will come, Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. "Of course, we won't mind if you look around", you'll say, "It's only $20 per person". They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good and that could be again. Oh...people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.” yep.  ... since that's how some people think of ripple. |
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