It's interesting that the people arguing against ripple are the ones who stand most to lose, their main fear is that other people would choose XRP as speculative investment over Bitcoin.
I agree to a point with this. IMO, it's deeper than that even. This is an ideological battle between those who seek to preserve a system based on "anti-trust" (Bitcoin) and a system that is based on "trust" (Ripple).
I'm betting on Ripple because again, IMO, anti-trust systems are against the laws of nature. Humanity wants to trust and hates itself when it is forced to accept that the future can only be doom and gloom and everyone and everything is corrupt and untrustworthy. The greater humanity in their hearts, does not believe this. In their hearts they have hope and thus will not surrender to a system of anti-trust. They will instead search for smarter ways to offer trust and I believe Ripple is that system.
Bitcoin has shown us the way. I believe Ripple can do it better. Maybe in the future, someone will do it better than Ripple. In the end it doesn't matter who does it, as long as it gets done. Regardless, when one bets on the good of the human spirit, in the end, all of humanity comes out a winner.
