You need to think different with Ripple than current cryptomodels. Ripple serves a purpose.
The concept doesnt involve mining. Instead of rewarding miners, they have made a system where investing and usage increases the value.
They dont reward miners cause they want to reward themselves. Devs of most cryptocoins get a set percentage, ripple devs get 100% of the value. Right now if the ripple devs want to have 1 billion usd then they can simply create and sell to the highest bidder hehe.
Also as the devs can create infinite amount of coins, they created a way for the xrp coins of people to get destroyed which means, ripple devs are gods cause they are the only ones that can create more xrp and the more you use ripple the more you will destroy the xrp available but devs can make a quick buck by creating and selling their new made coins hehe
So in turn, you think the xrp coin used for the fee was destroyed but the truth is --> it was never destroyed, the xrp creators have them all hehe, the xrp creators are the miners, they get the fee, the coins and everything hehe.
Oh please stop with the tinfoil hat theories.
The code is open source. Go review it yourself. They cant just print out new XRPs. That would destroy their reputation as well even if it was possible, which it isnt.
The bitcoin community should rather ask themselves:
Should I support a network that have such big flaws, like power consumption of an entire country to even have the network operating, expensive fees that steal peoples money, slow settlements that hinder a prospering trade among people?
The answer should be pretty clear. Bitcoin have served its purpose. It opened up peoples mind to cryptocurrencies. But its time is gone.
Its nothing more than a horrible horrible investment project now. People cant even mine it unless you are wealthy and own expensive asics or huge mining farms. The time when «the people» could mine Bitcoins are over and have been for years. Its not a project for the people anymore. But for the wealthy miners. Double standards delux from the Bitcoin community.
Stop supporting this ancient dinosaur. Think for a minute instead of spreading fear and false information about projects that is clearly superior to the dead elephant in the room.
As for purists that decided to support Bitcoin because it was for the people back when it was new, you disappoint me greatly that you are so blind for the truth.
You speak of profits and that Ripple is supposedly for the «bankers»,yet you cant even see the tree for the forest. Ripple is for decentralized network that nobody owns and can control, not even banks, that will continue to run even if Ripple would go bankrupt and go under. For removing the high fees and slow payments banks have been forcing on our heads for so many years. #xrpthestandard.
Join the revolution or step aside. Just stop spreading lies about something you dont understand