Actually I prefer ripples to the 'mined for' coins  because it seems so quick and easy to deal with them, but I still have a couple of strong doubts about cryptocurrencies, etc, in general. The first is, now and for the foreseeable future, if you want to buy yourself a car or a house or a flight ticket, you still need fiat money - dollars and euros, or in my case roubles and pounds. Also I wonder about the sustainability, the survivability, of all these 'coins'. I just don't believe they can all endure. I don't know why, but I like BTC, LTC, FTC and XRP. Because I enjoy writing, naturally I'm pro-devcoins too. Do we need more coins than this?
One final thing. There's supposed to be an XRP giveaway for developers. Anyone know when that is likely to take place?