Quote from: ThomasVeil on May 13, 2017, 01:55:55 PM

It takes only really 5 minutes of basic thinking to figure out that Ripple can not be decentralized in any meaningful way.

Ripple is a private company that sells transaction-function to banks. Now imagine they would actually give any control to the coin-holders.... those could then block software-updates if they don't like them, or create their own forks. What then? Ripple tells it's costumers "sorry, cryptoholders had other opinions, we can't fulfill our contract anymore"?
By design they need full control over the network.

Their business model is selling marketing BS. First to banks "hey you can use fancy blockchain-tech"... which already doesn't make any sense. They just profit from the fact that banks don't know what crypto means.
And then they sell decentralization BS to the alt buyers. Yay, double-profit.

It takes only 1 minute to understand that whole crypto world uses so called decentralisation as marketing and nothing can not be decentralised and be a store of value or whatsoever at the same time. Take any f*cking coin it can be centralised in one or another way and can be controlled, so what are you talking here about?

I can ask you the same question, what if tomorrow banks will stop provide withdrawal? Or what if somebody will switch off internet? What you will use bitcoing? No f*cking way you gonna be doing that, as most people eve do not understand it. Wake up.