BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron

Re:BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron by sireat on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @08:11AM (#17354589)

Ripple (the protocol) has been tested and presumably is still tested by money transfer firms and banks for evaluation purposes but not used in production.

And Ripple the protocol != XRP which is kind of funny with the ridiculous valuation of XRP. XRP is a pregen (shit)coin which banks would be loathe to use.

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Re:BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron by rburhum on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @08:30AM (#17354718)

I never said Ripple == XRP. In fact, I meant Ripple the company.

I am not going to make a comment about coin valuations - that is a different discussion.

You were looking for an example where something useful that creates real value for customers was created. I simply gave you an example of something that does.

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Re:BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron by sireat on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @08:40AM (#17354794)

Well you did write Ripple and XRP so you can see how one could be confused. :)

When/if financial institutions start using Ripple the protocol for real then I will agree that it creates a real value for customers.

If I order an eval kit for the latest RPi clone and I do not use it after a week of evaluation it is debatable whether the kit created a real value for me.

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