Red doch mal mit der IT-Abteilung dort, ein Lyoness-Coin oder so fehlt noch!

Paypal = reversible payments, Ripple offers only irreversible payments.

The fastest way would probably be to buy XRP using BTC, it is very unlikely that someone will accept your PayPal payment in exchange for any cryptocurrency, virwox are a rare exception in that regard...

Well, you can pay using Ripple (which means using XRP but also a lot of other currencies like BTC, USD, EUR...) anywhere BTC is accepted for example, so you don't need a separate "coinmap" for Ripple, just use the existing one. If someone accepts BTC, they can be paid using Ripple too.

Similarly smallish SEPA payments can also be done using https://sepa.link/, so anywhere you can pay in Europe via bank wire, you can also pay via Ripple.

Last but not least, SnapSwap I think now offers a Ripple-enabled preloaded credit card, so whereever Visa is accepted, you can pay using Ripple too. These are a few more shops than what would be useful to put on something like coinmap...

There are a few more useful things you can do, these are just the ones from the top of my head.

Mach doch bitte deinen eigenen Thread auf, statt in uralte, zu deinem Thema NICHT relevante Threads zu copy-pasten...

I disagree, as long as it is actually possible with public sources to determine the market cap of any coin (mineable or not) out there, it should be listed. It would be really cool to see LindenDollars on that page for example, or WoW gold. Unfortunately it is not very likely to get publicly verifiable data on these...

If they did, there would be public cryptographically signed proof at least for trades on Ripple itself. Less speculation, more analysis please! Which accounts that bought heavily do you suspect are owned by Ripple Labs or "heavy pumpers"?

As mjr announced, they are getting a new trading engine - so every kind of data on this old one is soon going to be useless anyways.

So I hold 100% of "Sukrimcoins" - how does that mean I can INCREASE the price of them when I can only SELL them?
Some people don't seem to understand basic markets...

Well, I didn't trade XRP at all for months now, in case you were directing your comment at me....

I don't think MtGox "scams" (being very VERY incompetent != scam...) are good, I just said they happened in Bitcoinland before too, P&D are not something extraordinary or unique and not indicative of anything other than a few people managing to move a small market.

Uhm, I have yet to read any statement that indicates otherwise.

I believe myself that this is just some random Pump + Dump strategy (though likely not done by Ripple Labs' (ex) employees). This has no real influence on Ripple itself though, Bitcoin was pumped + dumped multiple times too already in the past.

The question is if the demand for XRP is because people buying it want to actually use it or if it just shot up because someone (or a group of people) bought up some in the hopes that the market moves upwards with them ("I don't know why it moves up, but there must be a reason for it that I just don't know yet! Buy, buy, buy!") hoping to sell as soon as the top is reached.

This is known as "pump and dump" (pump = buy stuff + move market up, dump = sell whatever you've bought at a profit). There are some risks with that strategy of course (if the market doesn't move with you, you'll end up with stuff you don't want and have to sell probably at a loss) and it is hard to tell at the time a market moves if it moves out of speculation, information or a mixture thereof.

So yes, the price is set by supply and demand. The question is, where that demand comes from: Someone who actually wants to own XRP or someone who just thinks that it's possible to move the market up to make a profit. The price would go up in either case, in the first case it might stay up, in the latter it would crash down to what people who actually want to own XRP think they're worth.

These are good questions and don't seem to have been answered so far...

1. You can see balances of every account on Ripple (XRP + IOUs) if you for example query a full ledger and look at the contents, I don't think there are pages like http://bitcoinrichlist.com/ out there yet, they should not be too hard to set up though.

2. No, freezing is something the issuer of an asset can do (e.g. Bitstamp can freeze BTC or USD they have issued on Ripple) - if Ripple Labs issued assets (which they don't) they could freeze them of course, they can't freeze assets issued by someone else. XRP are not issued by anyone and thus cannot be frozen. Also you can set a (permanent!) flag in your account that prevents you from ever freezing any of your assets that you issue(d) with that account.

3. They get slightly more expensive. Currently one transaction costs about 0.12 XRP and 1 XRP costs about 1 cent, so while there is a cost, a Bitcoin transactions costs FAR more.

4. Stellar is a fork of Ripple which is currently struggling a bit to find their own way of doing things, Counterparty runs on top of Bitcoin which makes it inherently slow, NXT and Bitshares have an enthusiastic community but not yet a lot of use cases that I've seen (in comparison: you can get a Ripple-enabled credit card, you can send SEPA payments, Bitcoin transactions and US wires from within Ripple...). The biggest difference probably is that Ripple Labs has not only developers but also a business development team.

4. (again) - Consensus, the whitepaper was already linked: https://ripple.com/consensus-whitepaper/

Was genau meinst du damit? Exchanges?

So... what's you offer now?

The picture is from https://wiki.ripple.com/The_Ripple_Ecosystem by the way, further below you see how these markets get interconnected:



Seriously, this is getting ridiculous.

Still no mention on how to increase the amount of XRP by the way... Just another derailment, now with random pictures.

Because Paypal ONLY issues currencies/acts as gateway but does not have a native currency.
They don't list Bitfinex either, only Bitcoin traded on Bitfinex for example, or they don't list Coinbase/BitPay, only Bitcoin itself.

The only 2 issues I have with coinmarketcap is that they call XRP "Ripple" and that they seem to change their default view from time to time (from "all coins available" to "all coins in circulation" for example).

1 Unze Gold liegt derzeit bei ~940 EUR, du versuchst da 0,7 Unzen um 990 EUR zu verkaufen...

This should show what exactly?! "Alice" and "Bob" would have to use the same block chain/currency on Bitcoin too.

Still you haven't shown ANY indication that new XRP can be issued, all you did so far is to post random words or pictures you came across in the Ripple wiki trying to... do what exactly?

You confuse terminology.

Gateways are entities that issue something on Ripple (imagine it like colored coins). They don't "validate" anything and typically have very little to do with XRP (they need a few of them to do transactions once in a while).
Typically gateways even refuse to receive XRP.

Validators have a similar task to Bitcoin miners - they verify transactions and ensure the ledger's integrity (ledger = similar to Bitcoin's block chain with a signed UTXO set included). Unlike Bitcoin miners, they are not compensated with new coins or fees (fees are just destroying XRP).

Freezing works that way, that a gateway (e.g. PayPal) finds out that the CC payment you did to deposit USD was reversed by the CC company. They then issue a "freeze" transaction to freeze your USD balance with them which gets transmitted to validators, which put that transaction into the ledger. They afterwards will not allow transactions of UDS.PayPal from that frozen account, until it is unfrozen again.

As XRP do not "belong" to anyone, you cannot freeze them, just like bitcoins don't belong to anyone (in the sense of someone owning them other than the person that is allowed to move them using a transaction), they just "are" part of the network.

I already answered this before... just read the direct quote from the wiki page you linked to that XRP can't be frozen, or search for "As XRP does not have an issuer, it cannot be frozen" on that page if you have a hard time finding it.