Thank you! I appreciate your Ripple coverage; and although it's not as decentralized as I'd like I do see the value in Ripple. Perhaps Ripple will be the bridge between our crappy world banking system we have today and the fully decentralized currency world we want to move to.
I think people get too tangled up with the whole decentralization thing. Sure, it's good, but just because something is centralized doesn't necessarily make it bad or uninteresting, same with coins that cannot be mined in the first place. Sure they shouldn't be put in the same category as mineable cryptocurrency, but still.