It was the Bitcointalk forum that inspired us to create Bitcointalksearch.org - Bitcointalk is an excellent site that should be the default page for anybody dealing in cryptocurrency, since it is a virtual gold-mine of data. However, our experience and user feedback led us create our site; Bitcointalk's search is slow, and difficult to get the results you need, because you need to log in first to find anything useful - furthermore, there are rate limiters for their search functionality.
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We created this website with the sole purpose of users being able to search quickly and efficiently in the field of cryptocurrency so they will have access to the latest and most accurate information and thereby assisting the crypto-community at large.
Why did you decide to Fork Ripple?
We believe that the idea of Ripple is great, but the execution is flawed. The management has too much control over the supply of coins. The CEO keeps dumping XRP in the market for personal enrichment. This led to a 90% drop in value in the past couple of years. We want to move away from this unsustainable model and make Ripple decentralized.
Is it a hard fork?
No. Ripple isn't a mineable coin, so technically it can't have hard forks. We call our coin a fork because it's based on XRP but also different in terms of the consensus, coin issuance, and control over supply.
https://ripple-decentralized.com/faq.html