Ripple has great potential and is very cheap. So the only question is can you afford to gamble with 100 - 300 bucks?

     I think we have to look at the Ripple project from a higher altitude and consider the future of money, banking cartels, central banks, and the zeitgeist of our times as banks deal with their terminal illness. Ripple if not clandestine, then is a competitor to the current banking cartel which has over 100 youtube conspiracy videos explaining in detail how we all ended up slaves to the 1%. The presence of this forum and the accompanying provocateurs are evidence of the wave of change that is coming or here at this moment.
     The wave has to much kinetic energy to stop, so they are going to try to redirect or influence its direction. Build barriers and hire professional FUD packers whenever possible.
     If I were ripple and I had the resources to pull it off, I would get a significant footprint around the entire earth before I made my presence known to my enemies. The enemies are the americans and other so called populist movements around the earth that will rejecting fiat with her ruling families. That would not be possible without letting a few traders and early adopters get rich, that would be us; you need them to give you momentum and add social proof to the sheeple. Banking executives who can personally get rich by making early investments will not oppose your rule, if they are in the game. Ripple is a bridge to allow the banking oligarchs to be reborn in a new paradigm. This was never intended for the masses and once that is done, the door will close and sell only will be allowed on the exchanges when they consolidate their power.
     The current news about the big banks joining ether and/or hyperledger is the same play, other cartels jockeying for position in the post under the basket of the future.
     Ripple is the SDR competitor, a superclass connecting all the banks regardless of nation, while at the same time trying desperately to kill Shaq or Bitcoin. They are not benevolent and I do not trust the motives of the Stellar guy who's is going to undergird (7B Ripple) the underbanked with a currency based on Ripple super money at some point on the other side of the reset. Let's help the poor blacks and browns with the new and improved fiat on a shiny new mobile phones with 5G LTE, what's app, fucking uber. It is possible, just not likely.