I have posted some opinion on Ripple in this thread previously. Can search for it.

Alternatively, there are some links regarding Ripple in the front page.

For me, Ripple is a buy but that's my opinion only.

Yeah, same opinion on Ripple

As it seem more n more centralized bank are looking into using Ripple , such as consortium bank in Japan which has start to research n going to implement

Ripple won't be giving high return like Bitcoin , but certainly for future it will be range from $20-$100

Probably because the brass golem.
Nobody know when exactly it gonna release, but rumour it might go out on 31th, but few others said it might be mid june. So ppl collecting now probably.

Ah crap, I just realised the latest correction seems to have stopped already.
ETH back to USD 180.
Too quick!
Was hoping to get some on the cheap when my salary is out.
Slim chance now.

168usd on polo wor

Bitcoin dipping again 😳

I bought it at 14k, now stuck at 10k. Hodl?
went crazy

If I understand the charts correctly, it just means that bullruns usually needs correction before going higher. Unless there are very bad news, it looks like BTC is still trending upwards.
Thx for your vote of confidence but I'm not that type of guy.

Arent you bit too late. Its already going from 50-70sats to 700 sats within 3 week

So cool ETH... Luckily able to buy some at 0.089.. wakkaakkaka

For a limited time ...

any advise guys?

Ok fine you dont believe in bitcoin. The nice thing about bitcoin is that if u want, you can short Bitcoin down to 1 cent. So put your money where your mouth is and if you are right you will be rich, otherwise you are just trolling only. All of us in this thread is long cryptocurrency so we are bias.

And you should have just came in here with the questions instead of passing judgement, no?
I'll take on your question since I have some time. Can't promise I'll be answering all the time though.

The short answer is: Supply and demand (you can say speculation, I don't mind as it is true). And possibly utility depending on person.
Before you go off and cheer, the long answer is:

Bitcoin has most attributes a currency has - acceptability (general acceptance as a form of payment), portable and transportable (easy and "relatively" fast to transfer), indestructible (what could destroy bitcoin will need to destroy every computer running full nodes in the world), divisible (into smaller units), impossible to counterfeit, scarce, and you need to "work" to get more of it.

On top of that Bitcoin provides an elements which can not be found in today's fiat model - While it is possible to "print" or mine Bitcoin (side note: guess what created money?), it is impossible to make more Bitcoins than what preexists in its algorithm of supply which is maintain by full consensus of everyone in the Bitcoin network. Bitcoin can only be "lost" (when, for example, you die and nobody has access to the wallet), and the difficulty to mine Bitcoin increases over time, making it a deflationary model.

I would like to talk about the unsupervised element Bitcoin provides also, but, meh. We all know what's that for.

Now, this does not mean anything if nobody sees value in it. The first "value" for Bitcoin was generally agreed to be the electricity cost used to mine a unit of Bitcoin. Soon after, a large number of Bitcoins were used to pay for pizzas, showing that some people do see value in using Bitcoin as means of trade. That was very much akin to saying "my two fish should get one loave of your bread" - That's the start of value perception in a cryptocurrency.

So when you start putting perceived value and a deflationary, scarce model to an object - You get demand. And as demand increases (like I have mentioned in an earlier post, utility of the cryptocurrency, e.g. for fast cross border payment), and supply is difficult to come by, it increases the value of this object. Couple it with the attributes of a currency, and you get more people interested in this for their own reasons, may it be to treat this as an equity or as a currency, thus bringing its value up even more (this is why I said I do not mind this supply and demand model being called speculation - As it simply depends on the worth one places on it).
You could argue that this is unregulated and hence holds no substantial value, but I could argue also that governments and banks had failed (e.g. Greece, Ireland) to uphold their responsibilities as regulatory bodies for currencies as well, and multiple currencies through the ages had gone with time when new rulers and governments come into the system. Hence Bitcoin, having no supervision and running on pure supply and demand, could arguably be said to be the purest form of how an object should be valued. You could say what happens if one party hogs all the Bitcoin and try to flood the market/manipulate the market. Yes, it happens, but free markets have a nice way of regulating supply and demand, and subsequently the value of the object.
PS: It took me 45 minutes to type this up, so I am done for tonight. lol
PPS: KyleBear you tagged me just now ah?

guys, another newbie question.

i just installed multibit to stored the bitcoin. however this is some sort of offline wallet right?

to purchase btc , ltc or eth. i need coinbase for trading? after purchase then only i transfer it to my multibit?

does it work that way? or i can share my wallet address straight multibit to other users? i dont need coinbase?

done transfering, but yet to see any BTC in polo. how long usually it takes?

okay got it, now its confirmed. it do take few minutes yeah.

so in the Polo, using the BTC, i purchased an ETH. however im not sure whether the transaction is succesful or not?

any help?