And no real Govt or Big banks are going to buy into Ripple.. think about it..
You think the head guy of some bank wants to make a worthless shit coin some handful of guys own worth Trillions ?
Why would they ?
They hold all the cards why would they hand them all away ?
Right now Ripple is almost worthless and if banks bought into using them they would have to own a lot of them to provide service for them i think
and that would mean Big banks would have to buy a lot of these coins.. and is that happening ?
What is Ripple again ?
International transfers are the current leading use case, for financial institutions. Ripple serves an unmet need. Built-in FX and near real time settlement atop a distributed ledger is a powerful tool. Here is
a primer on Ripple for financial institutions.
Ripple has potential to disrupt the traditional correspondent banking system.
Fidor bank in Germany and
Cross River and CBW in the US are known bank adopters.
AstroPay and
TAS Group are also adopting the protocol.
Rabobank has acknowledged they are experimenting with Ripple. All signs point to growing interest among traditional financial institutions.
A team from RBS also recently
won a hackathon by integrating Ripple with FXMicroPay.
NACHA had the following to say about Ripple in their
Future of Corporate Payments whitepaper:
Beyond cross-border corporate accounts, the US-based company Ripple Labs has developed an open-source, distributed payment protocol for the payments industry. The protocol enables free and instant payment exchange in any currency — including dollars, yen, euros, Bitcoins, and even loyalty points. Financial institutions of any size are able to settle transactions in real-time and accelerate the movement of money. While digital currencies have long represented a potentially significant technical development, they have remained on the sidelines and have only been adopted by the most risk-hungry and adventurous. The Ripple protocol has the ability to simplify current technical and business models, offering an alternative message routing and settlement layer for payment networks. This could enable them to become faster, cheaper, and more interconnected. Utilizing digital currencies could be particularly attractive for facilitating cross-border payments, where values are linked to stable national currencies and quickly exchanged.
Banks are not interested in holding XRP; they are attracted to Ripple for its utility: it makes fast and cheap what has historically been slow and expensive.
Destination tags allow multiple accounts to be addressable through a single wallet and transaction fees are trivial, which allows Ripple to be adopted by financial institutions and
individuals alike at minimal cost.
I agree that there is no immediate evidence to suggest that banks are interested in investing in XRP.
XRP plays
a unique role on the network, that may or may not lead to a rise in value as adoption increases. Like Bitcoin, XRP has no counterparty. It also acts as a vehicle/bridge currency.
At the 2014 Future of Money & Technology summit, this evening, Ripple Labs participated in a panel on real time payments. If you want to learn about Ripple,
Codius, and the industry at large---definitely worth a watch:
jump to Codius Q&A responseRipple is all about utility.