I hope you are right... I'd like XRP price to growth to 1 USD (0.3 will be good also...
. Excuse me for my language mistakes.
that you can relax and just wait- say for an year at most... (perhaps within few months ). You don't even have to depend on trading and exchanges that much for 1 USD. If ripple successfully moved even 5% of global Swift remittance movement ( 300 billion ) - to make ti possible in smooth manner and use XRP collateral on RC Cloud XRP will have to be between 2 to 3 USD.
if its not, market participants will get greedy to grab the XRP bandwidth ( for ability to remit more then their share ) and it will shoot up even more :-)
So at this point, ripple XRP's evaluation to 3 USD is a given in my books and also as per some other financial people's opinion ( who are much more wise, old and smarter then myself ) . It is just matter of time, as projects go live and one aftr the other operations kick off.
i completely stopped worrying about exchanges and trading. I just have my XRP in cold wallet on my usb drive and will take it out when it is 1 USD and beyond and start averaging down all the way till 3 or 4 USD.
Good luck.
What you used to create cold wallet and what usb?
I use Desktop Wallet by Rippex ( Brazilian Ripple Exchange ) : and when i create an account using that wallet, it directly creates it on RCL ( no exchange, third party etc , no one to freeze funds etc ) .. i feel very safe this way ..
here is the wallet link :
https://rippex.net/carteira-ripple.php ( download the right one for your operating system/computer and unzip it - there is not much , and then run a program called "RippleAdminConsole-1.X.X" something inside the unzipped folder.
and he is a short video from rippex showing how to use their desktop wallet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emlhwj2pVg8 Whatever you do try with small amounts first and make sure u are doing right , and feel safe. once you gain confidence, i tell ya this is so good !
@PS : also when u create a new account, it creates a private key file .. Make sure you store that file and 'DONT' share it with anyone ever. That private key file and your password is all you need to recover yoru XRP from anywhere and anytime .. even if your computer crashes or anything like that . So in my USB drive i have a downloaded wallet and one copy of this private key file . and i remember my password in my mind..... that's it ! :-)
once you use, you will start loving ripple. because its like instant, no hours of confirmation time etc and the records and transaction entries are very precise / immediate.
(PS: Also some people also use xrpchat community desktop wallet, that is available here :
https://bithomp.com/ . This is open source and developed by xrp community members on xrpchat.com . The code is on github and anyone can take a look, so pretty safe and no funny business. Everything related to ripple is very clean and safe actually.. oh well )
good luck, stay safe !