does anyone have the ability to fund a ripple account to get started??

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thanks if you can

I thought they got more then that? Something like 30k

Can you explain how you know they would not make this mistake? This sounds like a sweeping assumption.

Has this been announced by OpenCoin? If there is a document or post I should refer to, that would be great to see! I guess it would fall along the lines of a monetary policy by OpenCoin, or the like.

So as I keep trying to get started with Ripple, I've been following the exchange rates at ripplecharts.com. It looks like the value of a Ripple has increased significantly over the last couple weeks. I'm thinking that others are in the same position as me: They want to test out Ripple, but also see that there may be value in buying ripples as in investment (maybe not now, but later?). As such, the price creeps up as demand rises for Ripples. But with the announcement today that there is another round of giveaways coming, it seems that the cost of ripples will drop significantly and then slowly creep up until the next giveaway.

With all this in mind, I wonder if since OpenCoin is holding onto most of the coins then releasing them in deluges (or a perceived deluge) is going to cause a rollercoaster in the XRP world.

Does anyone have thoughts on this? Are there plans to tackle the release of XRP in a manner that ensures stability? Am I just a noob that doesnt know what I'm talking about?

there doesnt seem to be a MtGox-type exchange to convert USD to Ripples yet. but it seems easy enough to convert BTC into XRP through bitstamp.

i imagine that there will be an exchange here shortly, or i guess in the Ripple world we would call this a "Gateway".

hello everyone,

i've been trying to figure out how to buy or exchange ripples, and i'm pretty sure there is not an exchange at the moment. am i wrong in this? any ideas on how to convert BTC to XRP in an efficient manner?

thanks!
mike

Hello,

I'm looking to learn more about ripple, how it can interface with bitcoin, but I'm especially interested in getting started. I'm limited now by not having any ripples to start. Any tips on buying in or getting a loan? I havent had much luck so far

Thanks for any help,
Mike

any suggestions on the best places to buy and trade? mtgox seems pretty crappy

crash and crash! people have lost trust in MtGox. the exchange is failing. the systems are failing. let it drop, and maybe it will stabalize into something that is useful instead of a place for speculators to make a quick buck on. bitcoin was not created to pump and dump!!

Hello,

I'd like to be whitelisted. I've been following the Bitcoin movement since it began, and am excited that its now taking off. On the whole I struggle with the technical details, but would like to learn and have been putting my time in to learn. I'm a strong promoter of the ideas behind distributed, alternative currencies, and have been involved in similar projects in places I lived before (Missouri and Oregon). If I could be upgraded, it would be much appreciated. I feel very limited at the moment.

Cheers,
Mike

how is it that people arent innovating around this? should be easier and cheaper to get money into MtGox. seems in some ways that MtGox is an overly complicated, joke of an exchange. when trading opens back up, i have a feeling that people are gonna "run on the bank"...too volatile, and not acting as a currency. let the 'correction' commence

a bunch of speculation...tsk tsk. does anyone know what they're talking about in here???

what a mess. this is not what bitcoin was meant to be...

hmm, sometimes i wonder if bitcoin is overrun with greed...

i like this idea. keep trolls away!

hello! excited to join the community. cheers yall