How come that you bitcoiners think that in every crypto technology the fucking token is the main point?
XRP is just a token that is not even necessary for the ripple protocol to work (it's an addition as a bridge and as a spam mechanism, but not really necessary), its price could be at a fraction of a penny and nobody would even need to touch it.
The ripple protocol is a very promising technology and still is, same goes with Eris Industries or Ethereum and others.
Stop focusing on the friggin' "coins". It's very probable that they won't even be a part of the future of crypto (where distibuted ledgers/databases are the real useful innovation).
XRP is just a token that is not even necessary for the ripple protocol to work (it's an addition as a bridge and as a spam mechanism, but not really necessary), its price could be at a fraction of a penny and nobody would even need to touch it.
The ripple protocol is a very promising technology and still is, same goes with Eris Industries or Ethereum and others.
Stop focusing on the friggin' "coins". It's very probable that they won't even be a part of the future of crypto (where distibuted ledgers/databases are the real useful innovation).
railing against human nature is a dinosaur braying against the meteors ... noone's listening to you, it is about the coins you fool, where have you been the last 5 years under a rock?
Ripple is finished because anyone can seize anyone's coins and kick them off the net for arbitrary reasons ... stupid ripple labs just shot themselves in the foot by locking up Jed's ripple coins in bitstamp and advertising to the world how broken ripple is. And the same will go with any other "blockchain" tech that has arbitrary centralised controllers, cartels, pools whatever.
The digital internet of valuable data is like nothing before, leave your past experiences and preconceived notions at the door. Where we are going there are no charts. The weird and unusual will thrive. The petty, boring, staid, inefficient, corrupt establishment old ways can be left behind.
Today it is a very different landscape. We know the limits of BTC and the blockchain a lot better and new technologies are strating to appear (AND I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT ALTCOINS/SHITCOINS!!!!).
You too have to calm down and take a deep breath. Quite frankly your view about "honest money" is a fairy tale to me by somebody who doesn't really understand how the world works, especially if applied to bitcoin (would be a little different if applied to gold at least...).
I'm not saying it's impossible for BTC to rise in value again (there is still a possibility that it becomes some sort of speculative monster store of value gold 2.0 kinda stuff, although I think it's unlikely), I just think that your reasons why you believe it should (replacing fiat or whatever) are mostly delusional made up stuff.
