Ripple

[Mnw]

What about ripple?

Is it interesting?

[Mahav]

yes, it's very interesting, but it has many skeptics and hurdles to overcome (e.g. labeled as centralized scam)

[monkeybars]

I'm interested in the Ripple protocol, since it focuses on exchange, rather than specie. Which is in point of fact the entire point of money.

[Mnw]

My first concern regarding Bitcoin is about transactions confirmation time.
 It's going to be hard to spread btc as major virtual coin if you need to wait 1 hour or more for complete payments.

However ripple's drawbacks are centralization and has no fixed amount of coins (inflation issue).

[noelmal]

just another pre mining scam but with a record 80% and 100 billion .....

[nousfeed]

I would look into bitmessage and open transaction before ripple, it could quite easily make it redundant.

[Zaih]

Not worth ya time 

[monkeynuts]

When are they starting to give out the free XRP's ?

[nofall]

A fully premined coin - The philosophy is quite incompatible with what we expect with a cryptocoin.