Why do I see so many calls for implementing distributed Bitcoin exchanges or putting up more robust/centralized Bitcoin exchanges when we will soon have Ripple, which perfectly provides distributed order books?
Isn't Ripple in-addition-to, not instead of?
I am assuming new forex-like entities will replace crippling bottlenecks like MtGox and then remain as processors themselves or 'gateways' to ever more powerful currency exchanges. Meantime, Ripple (both the protocol and its currency-as-token), provide the instantaneous delivery to and among those processors and their gateways that make it all flow.
I am indeed still asking, however, not pronouncing.