I'm also planning to lose all my money within 2017

This thread was likely started as comedy.
(see $1 prediction on page 1 and so on.  Why would Ripple be worth more than x times the sum of bitcoin, swift and all other cryptocurrencies combined?)

Ripple is priced 35 times higher than a few weeks ago.
News April:  hiring a leading SWIFT employee.
Old/constant news: Talking to banks, more banks,  but are all who have been talking previously still wondering to become clients one day? Will ripple reduce the banks counter by ~0.5 for each one that is rather undecided/sceptical?