I know that Ripple is totally different from Bitcoin phylosophy and that "Bitcoin purists" are against it. But, at the moment, there is really a bunch of people inventing in Cryptocurrency that just long for personal gain. These people will buy Ripples the same, cause they probably don't even care what's its purpose.
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