how am i obfuscating? this person said it's not useful and "has no chance to compete with bitcoin in the long run"... ripple is announcing real partnerships, what's so hard to understand? people continue to argue over what the "true" bitcoin is, and guess what, 2 of them (jihan and roger), have major influence over the bitcoin market. with centralization of that magnitude, it's no wonder people are abandoning it, yet your idealistic views of a world without government is what's hurting you.

ps. ripple has a clear decentralization strategy, to which ultimately no one entity will operate the majority of nodes (with an end game of ripple operating 0). i know, you clearly forgot to mention that... i could care less about people "attacking my investments", i care more about the integrity of real information, not obvious propaganda from people like you who are a cancerous growth within crypto.