Quote from: BruceM89 on May 25, 2017, 07:19:30 AM

Huge slump in the altcoin market today was an unfortunate side effect of the bitcoin 'SegWit2M agreement' hype (amongst other factors), creating a perfect extry point for those that felt they missed out - especially for XRP.

I just created a Twitter Account to message my local Australian Exchange - BTC Markets, as they seem to be fairly active on there providing information for some upgrades they seem to be doing (hopefully to get ahead of Australian demand - and avoid the issues Poloniex is having). I asked them if they plan on adding XRP/BTC or XRP/AUD to their exchange, and they confirmed that they will be after they sort out operational issues!

This is great news to see more and more countries coming on board.

Also, if you watch google trends for certain keywords too, for example Ripple or XRP, you will notice that Australia has the highest concentration of trending interest in Ripple - followed by the USA, Canada, UK, Europe and India. This should equal a huge spike in XRP once people start jumping on board. I'm currently working on an analysis of a couple trends and what they may indicate from a global perspective, which I will hopefully post in the near future.

On top of this, the infamous (mainly Australian) Blokes Advice group with 400,000 members in it has a post on Bitcoin with comments about buying Ripple. The interest in Cryptocurrency is definitely getting out there on Social Media!

Welcome fellow Aussie Grin

Which is your local exchange. I use Bitstamp and they have no operational issues but can probably transfer to a Australian one at some stage.