I feel that Ripple is a bit of a big business manipulator for crypto currency control. They have Ripple, you have Bitcoin. They want bitcoin to make money and control the market. However, they do not want to pay the market price of Bitcoin. So how perfect. You trade your bitcoins for XRP to them, and in the end XRP is spread at a low price and serious. They now have all the bitcoins and you have a ripple that is not too expensive.
I have some XRPs but I am not the same as everyone else. Just be careful about what’s happening in crypto and the financial suite of the world.