MIT didn't pick it as one of 2014 Worlds 50 Smartest because it was a scam.

..and the VP of the St. Louis Federal Reserve didn't call it the "big winner" because it was a ponzi scheme.

Perhaps a few of the neanderthals in this thread need to drag their knuckles over to Google (also a backer of Ripple, btw) and do some research.


The Ripple network has gateways in Mexico, New Zealand, England, the US, Malta, Singapore, Canada, China, Turkey, Japan, Israel, Norway, etc. It's not subject to 51% attack or malleability. It does 1,000s of transactions per second (vs. BTCs 7) and takes seconds for validation (vs. BTCs 10 to 60 minutes). It can handle every crypto currency in existence, as well as every fiat currency and commodity. It is a distributed exchange on a decentralized protocol.

Keep putting bandaids on BTC.....'colored coins', 'black wallets', 'master coins', etc......and make it a patchwork of wasteful, vulnerable, complicated crap....just so it can inefficiently do what Ripple was designed to do from the ground up.....

Bitcoin....the MicroSoft Windows of electronic currency.