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Re: Why are people buying Ripple?
by
DBronze98
on 14/01/2018, 05:38:49 UTC
  • it is explicitly (or at least formerly) not considered a currency
  • it is centralized (the company can freeze accounts if it wants, create more coins, or be sued)
  • it's major use case is for inter-bank transfers. So if Bank A and Bank B was to exchange currency x for y, they will use XRP in-between. But this gives no value to the currency itself, it is just used as an intermediary. Is it conceivable that Ripple the company will not have enough XRP for these internal bank transfers and they are going to have to buy them back from the public??

So it seems that XRP has no value outside its use by the company Ripple. Is anyone actually using it for commerce or any other reason? It is not considered a store of value like bitcoin (in any case one would want something decentralized.
I think Ripple has made a lot of good changes as well as they have come up with a new roadmap that will help all traders see the potential of it to thrive in the future which makes many people notice it as well as invest in it.