just disable his refcode...

Their products are all available on GitHub... It takes time and manpower to build software...

Anyways, they also have people working in business  development or marketing.

I agree that XRP are not that interesting. Luckily you also don't need to care too much about them too, if you want to use ripple instead of speculating on some centrally issued cryptocurrency

Ripple's server code is open source since September and XRP are not essential for ripple itself to work. Bitstamp is a gateway there for the better part of 2013 already.

XRP or ripples are traded independently on Ripple against dozens of different currencies by different issuers, sold on bitstamp, traded on kraken and sold or traded by several gateways like peercover who even take credit cards. All source code to run a client was open since the beginning a year ago, server code is available since September. The ledger itself is also open, so you can verify what's on there independently too.

BTW. was mcxnow a rippable exchange for you? 

You are aware that this is just a trading interface on top of the various APIs of existing exchanges, right? You asked for an exchange itself.

If you want this too, consider to implement api bridges to existing standards instead, like translating market data to the Blomberg open api so you can use your own interface.

Ripple is not crap, so I guess we have to disagree on that.

Yeah, that would likely be the fastest and maybe also cheapest way (depending on the exchnage rate swings in the mean time). Alternatively you can also send USD via bank wire to their bank.

Bitcoin and altcoins can be relatively easily traded on Ripple, this however is not necessarily "realtime" (it is atomic with ~5-10 second intervals). Compared to pure Bitcoin transactions it is much faster, compared to the NYSE even the fastest current "realtime" exchanges probably are magnitudes slower.

Sodele, nach kurzer Verwirrung (Paket wurde nicht von mir [Edit zur Klarstellung: sondern von wem anderen] angenommen aber eben daher als zugestellt im Tracking markiert) hier also mein Update:

2 Flaschen erworben, beide prompt versandt und auch super verpackt (Verpackung siehe vorige Bilder + nochmals in der Schachtel in Noppenfolie eingewickelt, sowie beide Boxen nochmals mit Luftpölstern wackelfrei in einer größeren Schachtel untergebracht). Ausgeronnen oder gebrochen ist nichts sichtbar und auch die Verpackungen sind komplett sauber (keine eingetrockneten Tropfen oder so), der Versand sollte also super funktioniert haben.

Bezahlung ist auf dem Weg (Vorabversand war ausgemacht) und der Genuss wird vermutlich heute abend oder morgen folgen, eventuell auch erst zu Silvester. Immerhin ist das ja ähnlich wie ein guter Wein, den man auch nicht gleich bei erstbester Gelegenheit mit Cola gemischt runterkippt.

Vielen Dank nochmal für den flotten Versand und den netten Kontakt, gerne wieder!

...ask them?
https://bitfinex.com/pages/contact

For all you know I could be an insider on this potential scam just like anyone else.

I am also not too vocal to convince people to lend their USD on the site (since I do it myself), traders however should feel quite invited by me!

What would be the business model of offering free support for free software?!

If you don't want to pay, just read stuff you need on your own, there are wiki pages and guides to nearly any imaginable topic out there. If you require someone else to devote time to hold your hand or customize something so YOU save time, this is called a service and a good part of all humans on this planet earn their living by providing such things. It's no different if open source software is somehow involved in the process.

Maybe you can offer something on your own for somebody that this person might need in exchange?

Probably service providers like Redhat can help you with that.
Open Source does not mean "for free" by the way, just to be sure.

You are wrong, this is just a proprietory service by blockchain. info. Messages are not part of the bitcoin  protocol.

Du solltest dann auch noch ripemd-160 verwenden und dann auch base58 encodieren können. In deinem Fall mit der Website hasht du vermutlich einen string, keine Zahl.

Es gibt einige simple  Implementierungen in Python zB wo man sich das einfach in code ansehen kann.

please don't spam...

The code they need is not a referral code, they just need to contact support instead of using this forum here.

Insured was introduced after they paid for losses from their pockets as a sign of good will at that time. Also the market recovered fast after that and the main issue they had was lag at mtgox, not necessarily the market crash itself. It was simply not possible to sell when needed.

So far besides some glitches that did not credit interest for an hour or so lenders have received what they should have received all the time.

Also a default for lenders would be most likely not a 100% default, rather something along the lines of a few single % unless satoshi suddenly dumps all his coin at once.

1. mostly yes, besides reserve requirements which are at the time of writing 20 xrp for every account and 5 xrp for every transaction that has to be stored on the current ledger (the latter is variable, once e.g. an offer is filled there needs to be no more reserve for that one) xrp can be spent freely between users with no central control from 3rd parties.

2. Initial money distribution of xrp is not decentralized, money transfer however is and like any coin that is listed there so far ripple too is not anonymous, only pseudonymous.

3. 'The code' is a bit vague, but still: anything you need to run a client or a full node is available as free and open source software.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/8dca7864f793072701f810e4c5ea12a6e1087085

market.cpp/market.h in the 0.1.5 client.

Ripple is a decentralized exchange.

The native asset there is called "ripple(s)" or XRP.

This asset has features that are very similar to any other asset on other block chains, e.g. BTC, LTC... and some unique ones, like being destroyed when transactions take place on Ripple (the exchange). They can be transacted and traded (and are intended to be!), so I would see them on one level functionally with any other "coin" listed on that page.

Ähm, wieso sollte man da nicht einfach um BTC diese "interessanten" ( ) neuen Coins kaufen?

First of all, Ripple != XRP ("ripples")

Anyways, you can run the open source server yourself and all you need (as with any other listed coin on that site) is just to use the globally accepted main chain of blocks (or in Ripple's case: ledgers).
I don't see where ANY kind of trust is needed to send or receive XRP, maybe you can point me to the code portions in question?

I would re-list XRP under the name "ripples", NOT "Ripple".

Also I am not sure how to deal with the "total supply" part - after all theoretically all XRP could be transacted at any time (while only ~12 million BTC out of 21 million can be used atm.), on the other hand a huge part of these will first be handed out before being used for trade. I guess any solution would be fine, just please make sure that "Ripple" != "XRP (ripples)".