I'm really impressed with their infrastructure, not so much with the aspect of premining, but their infrastructure seems like it has yet to be filled but will be filled.

so there are 100,000,000,000 XRP in existence, I am guessing that over time they become pretty rare, the investors behind ripple make it seem like they're in it for the long haul, catering to the mainstream.

I have tried to get ripple since i read about it, but bitstamp makes you send in a bunch of documents and it takes a week to get verified so i never went through with it

but i found kraken.com , they just verify you on your word.  its a really well made site made by forex dudes i guess. 

what ripple is i'm not quite sure, but will it take off in the future i have a feeling it will it has a marketcap larger than litecoin, as number two behind bitcoin, but it has an entirely separate system than bitcoin and actually compliments bitcoin.  they are pretty smart whoever is behind ripple, the keeping half of the currency to the developers is gnarly but they it seems like they are doing a pretty good job so far.

what do you think?