seems lots are jumping on this boat, you can see tipping point on the horizon with market bailing out of btc frying pan into the xrp inferno..
odd because XRP was never meant to be be a stable store of value (maybe a little more than RUB now though
![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
), never designed to increase in this way yet pumped this high, after the ripple labs/opencoin butchering from fuggers original vision to a kind of paypal 2.0. They obviously have the right VC money behind them, rubbed with right people high up and have certain qualities in this tech to satiate those bigwigs. (account freezing, quasi centralization, extensive reporting, not-too radical departments from traditional models etc) Hopefully bridges from crypto-> banking world like
http://epiphyte.us/, can help bitcoin get a leg up a little too.. and competition from paypal spin off, other 2.0 exchange mechanism like xcp and general fintech evolution can really start putting the heat on the 2.0 scene up next year because It's a sorry looking state all across the cryptocurrency board right now.
I wouldn't be surprised to find more 'partner news' on horizon for ripple, seems insider buy-ins correlate with run ups
also especially in the recent climate, wouldn't be shocked to see a boost in users storing fiat values on ripple net
personally, despite that I'm dumping xrp @ ~$2B, or lunchtime..whatever comes sooner in order to take a re-evaluation.
PS anyone noticed these same bugs on ripple?
https://forum.ripple.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8668 willy actors at work again?, or maybe new team of manipulators ?
also plenty of this;
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