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Re:Bitcoin Blows Past $9,000 by habosa on Sunday November 26, 2017 @04:40PM (#15783161)
I hold a small amount of XRP. It's not even a true Cryptocurrency as we commonly think of them but it's a nice piece of tech with good momentum in a space that could sorely use some efficiency gains.
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Re:Bitcoin Blows Past $9,000 by antoniuschan99 on Sunday November 26, 2017 @09:24PM (#15784375)
Why is that? Isn’t it an ICO? Like it’s just a fork of ETH/BTC/LITE?
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Re:Bitcoin Blows Past $9,000 by habosa on Sunday November 26, 2017 @09:33PM (#15784411)
No not at all. XRP is part of the Ripper network which is a centralized payment network run by a single company. It's mostly used by banks. It's going for speed and volume not privacy, decentralization, or growth.
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