Topic: [XRP] Ripple Speculation - page 201. (Read 637275 times)

Ok, you come, you give some amazing shittalk, what is your alternative? Some privacy coin that is used in darknet for child pronography, drugs and other criminal/fraud/scam activity? This is what you want, that your children would be raped, sold and doxed?

Escrowed or not? It's in the hands of a single company who created them out of thin air, how does this differ from a central bank printing fiat out of thin air?

You're confusing the ripple protocol (which might be adopted bigtime by banks) with the ripple tokens (the things you're buying of which you think they will be used by banks). I thought this whole crypto-thing was about cutting out the middlemen enriching themselves, not enriching the same middlemen even more? I must be too oldschool to comprehend :-)

How you mean 'useless in real life'? You mean you can't transact with it? Do you think gold is useless in real life? Sure, nobody uses it to transact with, but people who owned gold instead of dollars to save are way way way better off... So describing it as useless is very subjective...

Might surpass bitcoin and might make you paper profits, but you'll pay in freedom and future for you and your children

best of luck,

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1EY00C
"Money transfer company TransferWise said on Tuesday it is launching a low-cost "borderless" account and debit card in the first quarter of this year, in its latest bid to win customers by undercutting the foreign exchange fees charged by banks."

one of the 3 of the top 5 global money transfer companies = transferwise?

Already heard before.

60% that are mostly ESCROWED. (I'm tired of saying it again and again and again)
Paid nothing but they created the token and are the ones working for XRP to be accepted by the banks and all. if it becomes widely accepted and allow people to send money all accross the globe with close to no fees, they do deserves to end rich and honestly, I don't mind.

I will pass on the old "bankers are bad, bitcoin will free the world" speech. BTC is useless in real life. XRP is faster, cheaper, and solves a real-life issue. There is a strong possibility it surpasses BTC in Marketcap before Q1 2019.

Days like today are a great opportunity to buy.

Good luck to you too anyway

why? ripple is the ultimate banksterscam, it's not a cryptocurrency... https://cryptoyoda1338.wordpress.com/2018/01/04/the-truth-about-ripple/

XRP is 100% premined, Ripple holds 60% of the supply, controls which nodes are selected as “trustworthy” to confirm transactions, while they have paid nothing to create those tokens that people are so willingly buying at $4+ per piece and thereby make the creators insanely rich. Let us call it what it really is, digital fiat, the renewed version of the debt-based traditional fiat system, leveraged by latest technology – which eventually has nothing to do with cryptocurrency whatsoever.

Ripple lacks all the reasons why bitcoin and other crypto's have value...

good luck anyway

I think so too, yesterday I exchanged eth to xrp hoping in the next 6 months the price exploded and I will exchange it for reinvest in a new coin that potentially

Just exchanged some ETH for XRP. Expecting it to rise soon!

Reposting (not my post, credit goes to xrpmoonboiz over at xrpchat forum):




Bear with me...this will be a long, but I think very interesting, post. I read the article that came out today from Google talking about Google Pay and how it's already available on Airbnb, so I went down a rabbit hole for about 8 hours and dug a hole to China. Literally. And it basically was facts that I've read before, but never connected them all together. Take a look:

The craziest thing to me is how everything is connected in terms of companies, investors, you name it. And I should start by saying that I'm assuming the investors I mention (big name investors) probably have some power behind them and obviously they want a great return on their investment.

So we start with Founder's Fund. Founder's Fund (owned by Peter Thiel) is an early investor in Ripple, and also Airbnb. Founder's Fund and CapitalG (Google) are early investors in Lyft. Lyft uses Cross River Bank to pay their driver's, and Cross River Bank has implemented Ripple's software. Lyft uses Stripe as their payment processor, and CapitalG and Founder's Fund are early investors in Stripe, which also had an early investment from American Express Business Travel - this was acquired by Standard Chartered Bank who also invested in Ripple. So right there you can see how using Ripple links a ton of people, and has the potential to save companies money, which makes the big investors in those companies happy.

Then we go a little deeper. A vc firm, 500 Startups, founded by ex Google and PayPal employees invested in WePay, which is considered a market leader among payment providers for crowdfunding site and small business tools. WePay already partnered with Apple Pay and Android Pay (now Google Play), and they were acquired by JP Morgan at the end of 2017. At the end of 2017 there were also 15 JP Morgan executives in Ripple's office one day.

Google Ventures is an early investor in Ripple and Uber. dLocal is a payment provider who integrated Ripple's software in the second half of 2017, and its customers include Uber, AliPay, WeChat Pay, and Union Pay, which are China's 3 major digital payment providers and they're ******* huge.

AliPay is part of Alibaba, Union Pay has a partnership with PayPal, and WeChat is part of Tencent Holdings, which is the world's biggest investment corporation. Tencent also has Tenpay, a payment system similar to PayPal. It was reported that Tencent was working closely with China's Central Bank in 2017 to develop a central payments clearing platform for online payments. In August 2017, key leaders from China's Central Bank met with Ripple at their HQ. AliPay and WeChat are the payment providers for DiDi Chuxing, which is bigger than Uber in China - in fact Uber sold their China operations to Didi for a minority stake in Didi. AliPay is also accepted by Uber and Airbnb. Remember - Alipay uses dLocal which integrated Ripple's software in 2017.

Alibaba and Union Pay also invested in Ucar, a rival to Didi.

Tencent invested in Uber and Lyft, Alibaba and Didi invested in Lyft, and Softbank Group invested in Uber. Softbank Group also has a 30% stake in Alibaba. So again, because of the savings, if Ripple is saving these companies money, I would imagine everybody wants Ripple to be used in the companies they've invested in, especially if they are already linked to Ripple in some way.

And now onto India. Alibaba and Ant Financial (affiliate of Alibaba, most valuable fintech company in the world, and operates AliPay) have a 62% holding in Paytm. They also have a majority share in the parent company, One97 Communications. Paytm is trying to become the Alibaba of India. They have Paytm Mall, which is a clone of TMall, online retail operated in China by Alibaba. They also have Paytm wallets - could they follow in the footsteps of Alipay? Alibaba and Ant Financial are literally copying what they did with Alibaba but in India. Softbank also has a 20% stake in Paytm...remember they have a 30% stake in Alibaba. You can also use Paytm to pay for Uber...It's all connected. Patym is becoming Alibaba's vehicle for their ecommerce play in India.

Alibaba has a laser focus on payments because it sees payments as a key strategic battle to winning ecommerce. Up until a couple of days ago they were going to acquire MoneyGram, a top 5 global money transfer firms, but that was blocked by the US government. Remember, Ripple stated 3 of the top 5 global money transfer firms are on board with Ripple, so this move would have made a lot of sense seeing as Alibaba is already connected with Ripple. Alibaba said they're still going to work with MoneyGram even though they can't acquire them.

Also in India - Flipkart has big investments from Tencen/Softbank/Axis Bank. Axis Bank started using Ripple's software in 2017, Tencen's WeChat Pay runs on dLocal which uses Ripple's software, and Softbank obviously has a huge stake in Alibaba, which has AliPay running on dLocal as well.

And then for ***** and gigs, Bezos has personally invested in Uber and Airbnb. Amazon has Instacart through their acquisition of Whole Foods, and Andreessen Horowitz is an investor in Instacart...and Ripple. If we want to dig a little deeper, Sequoia Capital, which may just be invested in every company ever, has invested in Airbnb, Google, Instacart, PayPal, Stripe, and Yahoo. If we really want to stretch it, the President of Sequoia Capital's wife worked at Yahoo at the same time Brad was an SVP at Yahoo...which happened to be the same time Yahoo invested in Alibaba.

And this honestly might just be the tip of the iceberg, I'm sure there are so many more dots to be connected and a ton that I missed. But, it makes you wonder. If the companies are saving a lot of money through using Ripple's software, and eventually XRP, I can only imagine that the big name investors behind these companies using Ripple could potentially be encouraging their other investments to start using Ripple as well, if they aren't already. Is Alibaba, with their majority ownership, steering Paytm in the Ripple direction?

Welp, my brain hurts. This was a fun project though. Crossing my fingers for an announcement that Alibaba is completely using XRP, and somehow all of these actually are connected because I can't wrap my head around just how massive that would be.

I will do the same, I'm not sure about it's growth, I will be patient. Anyway, when I will reach this level, I will sell my XRP to money which suits better to cryptocurrency community

At this rate Ripple is going to make an amazing entry price for the Japanese when it list's on their DMM exchange this Thursday!

I'm holding this until $5 at least.

Ripple is making more and more partnerships with banks and institutions which is pushing the market as pressure element.

Exactly. I think too many people are thinking with their hearts and not with what is going to make them money. Look at the mass media attention, the partnerhships and their strengths, the fact that XRP is the banking sectors darling, the room to step up to $10. yes it would be a huge marketcap but it doesn't matter at this point. This is a trillion dollar sector that we are talking about.

Ripple is an oddity in this game, it took me far too long to realize that it was a decent bet. mainly because it goes against everything I believe in crypto.. Centralization being the biggest thing.. but as most of us are here to earn more BTC we really need to take our hearts out of the investment. I did and have profited well so far.

you only need to look at the mainstream media articles pushing the coin and the possible coinbase move to realize that this coin still has some decent upside

XRP will not go over 2.5 this week. Volume is much lower than last week.

Picking up some  orders this time, its gonna go up any moment.  Don't be left behind now more investors are coming into crypto in order to get some XRP. XRP made crypto popular that finance guys are now learning about blockchain technology.

Hey babyboooi listen, jed is now scamming with his stellar project you guys need to update your internetexplorer to get the latest news!
Go against stellar, its where the scammers at .
XRP - future universal currency

If XRP gets a bit lower then definitely it will be rise more, it's all about patience, some people are so scared to see Red Sign.
People don't know that this red sign is only mislead people. Don't Panic Guys Ripple will be rise Soon.
Hold tight you will be get huge profit from XRP and you will not regret. 

yes I also think so, right now I'm waiting for a good time to buy Ripple. my guess, next month the ripple will reach $ 5

I think we are close to the bottom with ripple so will see an uptrend soon before ballooning.

My advice. buy soon before it rises.

I am a happy owner of Ripple. I got in around $1 mark, and was able to buy during some retracement periods later on. I can't wait to buy more. I think it will continue to go up as they get more banks onboard. But I am still newbie to the crypto world, so I don't know much. haha