Quote from: democ on August 02, 2013, 06:07:01 AM

Try coinbase which lets you transfer money within seconds, as easy as an email.

Quote from: Sukrim on August 02, 2013, 11:36:24 AM

If coinbase integrated with Ripple, you could trade the coinbase IOUs you get by depositing there for anything...

Coinbase is nice, so is CampBX, but they aren't really at parity with BitStamp or Mt.Gox

Quote from: Sukrim on August 02, 2013, 11:36:24 AM

Ripple to me is more of a transfer/payment network while BTC is more like the gold in a high-security bank vault.

Exactally...

Quote from: Sukrim on August 02, 2013, 11:36:24 AM

What do you want to accomplish with this thread though? It will only stay here if it is relevant towards Bitcoin, otherwise it will be moved/locked. Only asking for "general thoughts" is a bit weak imho.

When I look at the ripple threads from May, they all got flooded with ripplesux.com posts. That's fine, but there is an interesting protocol under all the XRP=SUX retoric. I guess I was hopeing that since I can move USD from my US checking account to BitStamp for < $1.00, that there might be wider adoption. But that borders on sounding like an XRP shill.

Time will tell I suppose. If the money movement aspect of it is successfull, with a low percentage of scammers, system might still take hold.

Quote from: MPOE-PR on May 25, 2013, 11:54:58 AM

Even if it's debatable if the Better Ripple end is above or below epsilon, it's still undebatable that Ripple - Ripplescamcoin = Better Ripple.

Good thread... thanks for the pointer. Searched ripple and this one was low on the search order and still pretty old. Apollogies if this topic is already talked to death.

Quote from: Sukrim on August 02, 2013, 11:59:43 AM

I would rather see a Ripple implementation that lets you use other currencies (e.g. BTC, LTC...) next to XRP as native currencies. As you anyways don't need a lot of XRP in your whole lifetime however I am not too sure if this would really ever pay off.

That's where the protocol confusion freezes most discussions. There isn't a native currency per-se. There are IOUs and XRP. The "pitch" is that XRP aren't currentcy, but transaction credits. Currently I'm allowed to do 75 million transactions, but my cost for transactions will go up as servers take load and try to discurrage transactions (by raising the credit cost).

But after I burn through my 75 million transactions, I can "buy" more credits. This is why the credits cant shake the currency tag. Since they are buyable, they are defacto currency. Hence the targe of the the gas and firestorm.

Quote from: Sukrim on August 02, 2013, 11:59:43 AM

I somehow understand why so many people here are so much against XRP - I don't get however why so many people don't look beyond that. The price of one BigMac buys you more XRP than you probably need in your lifetime and that's the only single transaction you need XRP for. Compare this to Bitcoin... anyways, I'll continue to work on my project(s), have fun bashing/flaming.

Agreed. I would think Mt.Gox / BitStamp / BTC-e / CampBx would all jump in the Ripple game. Making it easier for customers to get money into your shop is always a plus, though the stake costs may be a barrier to many, since, to be honest, you probably have to "seed" the liquidity by agreeing to swap a few 100k with other exchanges.