nobbynobbynoob
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February 22, 2013, 03:01:23 AM |
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A successful Ripple might well complement and not compromise Bitcoin anyway. Right?
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DougTanner
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February 22, 2013, 03:09:33 AM |
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Where is it currently used?
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Mike Christ
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February 22, 2013, 03:11:08 AM |
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Pretty much nowhere, I think... It's brand spankin new
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February 22, 2013, 05:02:49 AM |
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Bitcoin will become a settlement network, where as ripple will become a clearing mechanism. Both are complements of each other. But since ripple deals with fiat, I am afraid governments will attempt to control ripple before they attempt control on bitcoin.
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February 22, 2013, 05:10:50 AM |
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I'm still not clear on how they accomplish securing the ledger without mining...
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February 28, 2013, 05:32:16 PM |
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I starting reading up on bitcoin at the start of this year and now can't stop myself from coming back to it. Think I have just about got my head around it, and then this ripple thing comes along to make my brain ache even more! The thing that is bugging me about ripple is: What is there to stop me setting up my own gateway, operating honestly for a few months/years building up trust and then doing a runner one day, leaving a wake of creditors behind me? I am well aware that I am probably missing a fundamental concept of ripple gateways here. I just don't know what it is yet
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Prattler
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February 28, 2013, 05:38:30 PM |
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The thing that is bugging me about ripple is: What is there to stop me setting up my own gateway, operating honestly for a few months/years building up trust and then doing a runner one day, leaving a wake of creditors behind me?
Ideally, the community, the law, etc. You might also make more money by operating honestly. In practice, this is *EXACTLY* what will be happening. P.S. 10 11 XRP are currently valued at $39,000,000.
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Prattler
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February 28, 2013, 05:47:39 PM |
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Following that thought... A gateway can go bankrupt for just operating a bad business and there is nothing to prevent that. The only gateway that would always be able to pay back USD is the Fed and the only gateway that would always be able to pay back EUR is the ECB. There is no gateway that would be able to pay back BTC with 100% security.
But we're already trusting the Fed and ECB as gateways in the current financial system, nothing new!
The real benefit of Ripple would be for potato5491 to issue potato-dollars and then we would all trust potato5491 as the gateway for potato-dollars.
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bowen151
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February 28, 2013, 05:48:36 PM |
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Where are they getting the valuation of a "ripple" from? Is there an official number or link to find out?
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Peter Lambert
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February 28, 2013, 05:50:08 PM |
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I dont think it will. There will be an initial surge due to the idea of a btc competitor but the fact that the currency is produced initially from Ripple, makes me question the longevity of it.
I don't see Ripple as a competitor to bitcoin. It is more of a facilitator of bitcoin, it fills a separate niche in the economy. The other thing that might help is if you think of XRP more like postage stamps and less like a currency. Each transaction costs something like 0.000001 xrp, If I do about 3 transactions a day it would take me something like 100 years to use up one XRP. They are giving away bunches of 50000 xrp. I might be able to use the system my entire life without ever buying any more xrp, and still have a bunch left over. Where are they getting the valuation of a "ripple" from? Is there an official number or link to find out?
There is a mechanism in the ripple client where you can exchange various currencies, and you can trade XRP/BTC.
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February 28, 2013, 07:13:54 PM |
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If one forgets the hard complexity of ripple network (trusts, IOUs that work on a exchange, but not one the other, bugs, etc.), forgets the 100 billions XRPs, forgets that they pocket 20 billion, forgets the giving aways that will have to last for months... did I forget anything more?
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ablewasiereisawelba
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February 28, 2013, 07:38:36 PM |
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I think there is a chance that it will succeed because I'm intrigued by it.
unfortunately, I was intrigued by Betamax too...
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March 01, 2013, 04:42:37 PM |
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The real benefit of Ripple would be for potato5491 to issue potato-dollars and then we would all trust potato5491 as the gateway for potato-dollars.
Thanks for the response Prattler. As time passes I am guessing there will come to be only a handful of gateways with "superbrands" that dominate the market. Then one of them will go very wrong. Very much like the handful of international banks we have at the moment I suppose. Right, starting tomorrow I will begin issuing my potato dollars (PDO). There will only be 5491 of them, and they will not be divisible, so be quick!
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March 03, 2013, 08:09:30 AM |
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I think Ripple has the potential to fix a lot of the transactional flaws in Bitcoin. It takes hours to confirm a Bitcoin transaction and the value fluctuates rapidly. People can use Ripple to exchange BTC in a faster way while still using BTC as a store of value / unit of account. Others can use Ripple as away to exchange fiat currency quickly and at essentially zero cost which is very valuable indeed.
Bitcoin is a store of value (scarcity / mining) and medium of exchange (transactions) while Ripple focuses on just being good as a medium of exchange using other stores of value.
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March 03, 2013, 08:40:18 AM |
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I think the guys buying thousands of ripples for .6 bit coins are the creators of ripple. They've given themselves a ton of them. And are now trading ripples for bitcoins to try to create a market for ripples to make it seem like they have a value.
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March 03, 2013, 10:21:41 AM |
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March 03, 2013, 10:28:01 AM |
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ripple ripple ripple ripple
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March 03, 2013, 10:46:42 AM |
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I think XRP rate will rise, but then rate will fall slowly to 0.00
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March 03, 2013, 10:59:19 AM |
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I'm still not clear on how they accomplish securing the ledger without mining...
Consensus. See this StackExchange answer: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/7563/85
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