Ripple Hate: Is Ripple a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?

[mayuri27]

What is causing this Ripple in the market?
Ripple, a token created by the company of the same name that aims to facilitate transfers between major financial corporations. In this goal, it has seen much success over 2017 with a few major banks partnering with it.

Despite working with central banks, it is the centralized nature that has many up in arms. When the system was created in 2013, the #DevelopmentTeam  removed many of the key features you find in most other cryptocurrencies.

This was done in so that the token could be geared towards these major financial institutions, which is fine and probably necessary, but it becomes problematic when Ripple is counted in the same breath as Bitcoin and other very decentralized digital currencies.

Ripple issues its token in a centralized fashion, unlike other coins which are mined and incentivized by people dedicating computing power to accumulate them.

“It’s not a cryptocurrency”
Many in the community, including creators of other coins, have slammed Ripple’s definition as a cryptocurrency.

“For the most part, I’m not frustrated or angry with Ripple, I’m frustrated with the community’s general lack of knowledge these days (i.e., Ripple is a symptom, but not the problem itself),” Reddit user thieflar, a moderator of the Bitcoin subreddit, tells Inverse.

“The fact that Ripple is labeled as a “cryptocurrency” and included on sites like CoinMarketCap has been, for the most part, seen as misleading and inaccurate for many years now,” thieflar adds.

Litecoin creator, Charlie Lee, has said that he does not believe that Ripple should even be considered a cryptocurrency.

[Gabearooo]

I dont see Ripple as a cryptocurrency either. The concept is great and I think its great for the banking financial system, but its everything opposite of a cryptocurrency.