have to agree with you there. that's why all alts are up and that's why the saying 'Bitcoin is king' is around. As much as I don't like it as I think a lot of alts have good futures but the crypto world has become the new stock exchange.

Personally, forget about the crypto-currency XRP. The currency-agnostic payment system (path finding algorithm & concensus) of Ripple is still the most brilliant piece of fintech which is why I keep an eye on it. Just Ripple Labs profit from the protocol adoption more than they do the coin...

All great stuff lol but still no mention of coin adoption, look I found some from 2014 - http://www.coindesk.com/us-banks-announce-ripple-protocol-integration/ and google shows many more from then around the world.

the fact is it has been integrated/tested/adopted for years but its the TECHNOLOGY not the COIN. It has a flow on affect sure, but the banks are not going to use a volatile XRP for anything more than the transaction fee. Its simple, banks have something to gain from the technology but not the coin. This was a smart move for Ripple to do to allow them to make money off the technology rather than hold it on a crypto coin that we know banks don't want to see happen.

The don't make money off money itself they make money off fees and interest. They will pass the ripple fees onto the customer just like fees now are passed onto the customer. If they could they would keep the fees higher, and may just do that, they are interested in the benefit of the speed, not the currency.

Fee free trading next week in south korea will be the next boost but I'm sure it will be seen as bank adoption or the hosting/sponsoring of a convention.

Where is it being added to the basket. Like I said I will get excited when I see some news that the banks plan to use the coin for transaction, not just the technology or the coin only for small transaction fees which is the only 'must' in the Ripple scheme.

It has grown since 2014, so has others but the testing before adoption has been going since then so there is no breakthrough news. Japan is going to launch using the Technology, great. If they were going to also use the coin there would be news of that. Ripple would make sure there would be news of that and Japan would be buying now or weeks ago. It has a great team, great backers, one of which is Google (marketing geniuses) but there can be other causes to the growth e.g fee free trading does wonders

When I see that news I will put more than I currently do on XRP that's for sure, my fingers have always been crossed.

absolutely, all coins will ride the coattails of it and holders will benefit in the long run and pumpers benefit daily. its just dangerous for people to buy in on a pump. Hey I do it and its a smart game to make money from and builds my BTC supply but its sad that this has become the use of crypto's more than anything.

I still would like to see some news on XRP coins being adopted not news on the technology being tested/adopted. I have seen plenty of news on the technology since 2014 and was excited back then. Even Ethereum is being experimented by with Financial institutions.

Don't get me wrong XRP is in my top 5 but just at the moment I see LTC growth high so I have more eggs in it, even more than BTC which is usually my go to for daily profits lol

What makes you so confident that the market cap of DOGE will be $12,250,000,000? that is more than the GDP of some small countires - good luck in holding your DOGE. I'm selling mine


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lol doesn't take much to see they are trying to get people to buy but each of those posts can be seen as hype and nothing else, they should do it smarter.

Yup good time to transfer your doge to Litecoin and ride its post Segwit buy frenzy. still a good price, did this with a few of my other alts that were going sideways or even down a bit and instead made money over night with litecoin. No brainer....

may i ask ....why did you feel the need to create a noobie account to post here?  just curious m8
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Actually created it for the litecoin thread but was cruising the 'newests' posts to see the chatter and ripple was one of them and I agreed with what another user said. If I was all positive and 'buy buy buy' you wouldn't be asking. I actually never said ripple wouldn't grow but people never step back and look at it holistically to see what everything is doing and the trends. All alts are growing, the reason why can be debated. Those pump and dumps aren't polo crashes as it shoots right back up to where the orders were left, it doesn't automatically cancel everyones orders to drop the price. It is whales finished with the pump, dumping it to take their winnings, ride the BTC up and then jump back onto the alts. it is just easier with the alts still in the cent range as its less risk.

Some times people need to hear something other then 'to the moon' which I have just noticed is in every alt thread. When someone says anything different they are troll.

lol all alts are slowly going up, its natural progression. Take a look at coingeko. You need to look for real world usage and reasons for increase otherwise its just a pump/dump game and natural progression. E.g Litecoins Segwit is now active, its going up for real reasons, not a pump or news that's been around for years or in the case of other alts, no news at all.

So yes XRP is going up and pump and dumps don't mean coins are suddenly going to drop back to 0, but doesn't mean growth due to usage, merely trading.

Spot on, all people can do is speculate and hype men are going to find logic to keep support for coins strong. Every thread has them. The fact is all Alts are up, XRP is no different, its news extends way back for years so nothing new, yes it can look like its gone up more than others and that's because its in the Cents, not dollars, so less of a risk for people to pump on. All coins have been pumped and dumped and XRP is no diff, not every XRP dump can be attributed to polo crash. Apparently crashed last night but there was no dump at all...

Lets not forget that there is nothing to say that the banks are adopting the coin itself, only the technology. They do need to at least use XRP to cover transactions, that's it, and they don't need to buy millions or even billions to cover those transactions for a loooong time. That is bearable for them, buying lots for transactions isn't, at least not while its so volatile.

Will it grow?, sure but all alts and cryptos will as more look to trade. Traders are seeing how much can be made in a day in the crypto world compared to share trading. The reason the alts shake when Bitcoin grows is proper traders pump alts, transfer them to bitcoin for the grow, as it dips, pump the alts. Its a reoccurring wheel.

Sure sell the news and buy the hype, every thread does it but be careful with your money, don't get caught in the game of those benefiting from your pump, its your money so be wise!  

Its definitely going to boom and its still low enough for people to get it!

At least its not a pump and dump coin like other alts, it has real world usage