I had a revelation about Ripple and saw its potential about a month ago when a few Ripple based alt coins (BIG coin and LOLcoin) were released and the coins were given away like XRP was originally on bitcointalk.

I was determined to exchange the free coins for btc and after a few frustrating but enlightening hours I was successful in exchanging my 50,000 BIG coin and 2,000,000 LOLcoin for .008 btc.

If you really want to understand ripple, I found hands on experience to be the best teacher.

somehow I ended up with an account negative 999,000 LOLcoins...I don't know how this happened can anyone explain?