You will have a better understanding of Ripple, Ripple Labs, and XRP after watching this interview with Ripple Labs CEO Chris Larsen. Ripple Labs is direct about the technology and future plans.
I've watched too many Ripple videos on the back of promise that they'll give "a better understanding of Ripple".. doesn't happen.
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*Give me a load of Ripple, maybe I'll like it more.. but why would you do that, if they are valuable? rJ2zDmzhxQNspB6RsxKgp8Ro1odEsACCEx
XRP are currently in the $0.015 range. If you can't afford that, you don't need a handout, you need a job.
I've got BTC to spend but no reason to do so.. I'm thinking XRP are not meant to have value and that the intention is they should be given away for free. I don't want to burn good BTC or any other coin for XRP while the use of them is so unclear. If they are being given away, then I'm happy to consider them and trial what they can do but that's a different model of distribution than finding suckers to buy them.