Wow man! This is my first post, and this means a lot. Always nice to start on a platform with some positive feedback. Much different than the Reddit community. I have much more content, as you can see this article is a heavy read so I didn't want to post the whole thing. I just wrote an article on Ripple that takes a 10,000 foot view and also gets into some granular aspects of their XRP product. If you are interested it is here, I will try to post later. https://www.achainofblocks.com/feed/what-is-ripple-how-does-it-use-xrp-to-leverage-instant-liquidity-ripple-explained-2018
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