I've got BTC to spend but no reason to do so.. I'm thinking XRP should not been considered to have value and that 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.
They have been and are given away for free. You must have missed their very first giveaway to members of this very forum. They just aren't going to dump all the XRP to a handful of crypto-enthusiast because that does nothing to help fairly distribute the currency to the world and for Ripple, it's about the masses not the miners. Eventually, this distribution will run its course and we won't have to talk about XRP all the time. I'll honestly be glad when it's over because there is so much great about Ripple that people fail to see because of their "coin" blindness.
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They just aren't going to dump all the XRP to a handful of crypto-enthusiast because that does nothing to help fairly distribute the currency to the world and for Ripple
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Add that to my earlier arguments
By the way, darkcoin is giving away coins too
https://www.darkcointalk.org/forums/general-discussion.2/and they don't alienate certain parts of the community when doing so.
The engineer in me is somewhat tempted to take a closer look at the technology and figure out exactly what problem is being solved, but if its not completely decentralized
and controlled solely by the community as a whole, I doubt I will dig deep.