Quote from: Sunny King on February 28, 2013, 06:59:22 PM

Quote from: dancupid on February 27, 2013, 06:00:14 AM

People are confusing XRP (ripples) with Ripple. All you need are a few XRP to use Ripple (300 to get started and 0.00...01 to make a transaction. ie they are not used as a store of value.
It looks like they have been intentionally designed as a bad investment to discourage people using them as a store of value.
The value of the Ripple network is not connected to the Market Cap of the value of XRP since you can still make ripple transactions even if they are worthless.

This assessment is questionable. You do know that XRP is the safest assets inside the ripple network, don't you? Not to mention the fixed cap. XRP certainly has the potential as a good store of value.

Although that's assuming the initial distribution is complete. Before that happens, XRP may very well keep going down in the market.

Sometime in the future, the price for XRP will become stable and they will be a decent store of value. Right now they are still in the price discovery mode, and nobody is sure what the final valuation will be. I kinda think they are highly overpriced. The price is almost opposite of bitcoin: bitcoin started at a price of 0 and we are going up until we stabilize, XRP started high and they are going down until they stabilize.