I said exactly what would happen and that the tests exist.

Whoever gave you that idea?

That practice has nothing to do with how the world is changed.

I believe most charities practice this, I saw a presentation on it with a bunch of accredited investors, don't have the source.

You can't will your alternate reality into existence.

Despite ideals it makes your rebuttal moot

They could buy a bunch of masternodes because those are dividend producing assets in the cryptocurrency space

The yields should be pretty good

Yes one thing I like about trains - their ONLY redeeming quality - is that if the trip says 2 hours, then it is really JUST 2 hours out of your day

Whereas with flights, if the trip says 2 hours then it is more like 4 and a half hours out of your day. Always have to consider showing up to the airport at least an hour early, always have to consider going to the edge of town, always have to consider sitting on the tarmac, etc.

I could see the utility of getting to skip all of this at a fixed price which is NEAR the normal prices. The next thing up is Jetsmarter for $10,000+

Shopping for a home has to appeal to people that are in the market for a home. The phrasing is not exclusive to buying versus renting, but colloquially thats what it implies. People in the bay area currently on the market wouldn't be looking for this, it would be the new and naive next year and the year after that may wind up considering this. The current market is people that can make down payments on million dollar+ mortgages and that doesn't include living in the carcass of a suburban mall.

I know we are splitting hairs because this isn't always the case, and what you offer is intended to always be the case along with being possibly shorter flights with quicker checkins.

I just think the messaging is a little off because the way it is described doesn't really solve people's problems, especially when they will be so often debunked.

But I did consider doing a stint at the top of the Sony Center in Potsdamer Platz, Berlin

I think I'll stick to my existing aspirations of "get your funds up". Success for me will be getting called a douchebag because of my far-future son or daughter's car, without any further context of my character or in person actions. Then I will feel like "yes, I've made it".

Living in the carcass of a mall won't do that.

Unless.... are these roundtrips? I want to assume so but that would be a bad assumption to get wrong!

Fix the site.

Right, and there are people working on the blockchain level with very compelling bandwidth improvement solutions.

You might find one interesting, take a look.

There are people making silly games right now on the understanding that the infrastructure they are building on will improve. These people are doing this because it helps them understand the toolkits, language and infrastrcture, which has a massive upside in their opportunities by merely exposing themselves to it now. When the infrastructure is already there, and the books exist, and the college kids are learning it at state schools, the opportunities won't be nearly as great for them. And yes, they can be wrong!

But it isn't as simple as you (and everyone other competent full stack engineer) questioning their life choices and being the only people to notice that the underlying platform has an uncompetitive limitation right now.

Your point is moot. That ship sailed 100 years ago.

There would be so many counterweighting forces at play at any time that it would be EASY to rationalize why this one shouldn't affect the share sale's view in the court of public opinion. Given that none of the other sales did either.

Case in point, we are analyzing this timely disclosure a full quarter later. I count at least five 8-k's since then, let alone form 4's

I dont know the answer to the network structure, I think it is some kind of staking/validating thing, thats the basis of my thesis and I had tangentially read it somewhere before deciding to pass on XRP for other reasons. feel free to tell me if you do some independent research on that assumption

Yes it is the same standard of any commodity and currency, which is why its not irrelevant. Same info, different conclusions, odd.

My point was that the ripple network wouldnt be useless for the entity that bought 99.99% because of the network structure, I’m not sure what your point is

Another user of the network would need to buy xrp from the majority holder, there’s nothing controversial about that. Diamonds function the same way for DeBeers except they have a much lower standard of utility until the owning entity created a new use for them.

Read up on it yourself, I think its some form of staking or validating

Im not the evangelist of Ripple just because Im not succumbing to widespread ignorance and flawed analogies

Xrp holders have some function in the network, I forgot

And you could name the price for anyone else that wanted xrp or to use the network

Although I would say Ripple’s XRP is not the settlement solution Id be looking for, I wouldnt say owning 99.999% of them makes it worthless

Owning all of a commodity doesnt make it worthless, even when that commodity is a unique collection of cryptographic signatures

> Yet the fortunes of Mr. McCaleb and Mr. Larsen are not nearly as durable as those of other people on the Forbes list given that the value of virtual currencies fluctuates wildly. If Mr. Larsen wanted to access his wealth by selling Ripple tokens for dollars, it would likely drive down the value of Ripple tokens — and his riches.

People keep trying to apply a different higher standard to cryptocurrency in order to prove why it cant function as legacy asset classes.

Honestly, I think its because people dont know how the equity/currency/commodity markets work and are synthesizing standards while watching crypto billionaires get minted on the fly to justify their missed opportunities.

In Ripple’s case, the founders are probably more liquid than other equity billionaires. Ripple traded 7 billion usd today, Facebook only 2 billion.

And I dont even like Ripple, but right now I have to fight ignorance outside of the crypto arena.