Is Ripple a Scam?

[alexn3620]

I think this is not a skam, but something interesting. Central office in America, half of coins in the founders, unlimited emission of coins.

[DrYe5]

There are so many posts saying Ripple is a scam.  Also, some of the adverts say it is a scam.  What's up with Ripple?
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To be honest I was very interested in Ripples and I wanted to invest a bit. However, if I see such threads and so many comments that are divided, I am a bit afraid. Too much to lose. It is not worth it.

[see8hjj]

Ripple is not a scam. The reasons people say that is because it is not yet decentralised and technically funds can be frozen on some accounts by a central authority, ( but this is the price of conforming with existing regulation as a money transmission company ).

[StelioKontos]

Well it's a "kinda sort of an anti-blockchain philosophy", so therefore labelled as scam, because it violates the decentralization aspect of 99% of other cryptocurrenciens in the sense it is a "friend of old style banks" way of the distribution and organization of big money flow and transactions. Read more at quora: https://www.quora.com/How-is-Ripple-different-from-bitcoin