eGold was shut down for less than people assume.  The FBI will raid and shut down anything in the United States if it gets too big.  The reason Ripple hasn't caught any attention yet is because it's still small shrimp.  eGold at its' peak was handling $8 billion volume versus Ripple's $1.3 billion if the current volume were to hold for 365 days (previously Ripple was doing far less volume).  All you need are allegations that Ripple is involved with drugs or pedophilia and it will be shut down.


This is true - put a few people behind bars and seize all the computers and Ripple would die - true some parts of Ripple are decentralized but its' ghost town community wouldn't be able to fill the void from its' leadership and staff being put behind bars and its' office being shut down and the computers put into an evidence depot.