^ that's the thing.  does it even have to have a monetary gain to help promote the ripple protocol on a community level?  or does it even mean that when i promote ripple, i am saying you should speculate in xrp?  no. i am simply saying for everyone to try it out and see for yourself if it is something that might be of use to you, whether you are a trader, a banker, developer, coder, merchant etc.. then if not, move on. simple.

but before pushing it aside, please read up on it first because most of the people that did push it aside are the ones who didn't spare a few minutes learning about it.

again, here's the ripple primer:  https://ripple.com/ripple_primer.pdf