Great post. As a consummate investor I have always wanted to increase my holdings in Ripple but while mining had to jump through so many hoops that I gave up. How can I purchase Ripple right now and what form of payment can I use? Thanks and I think you right on target with the information. I totally missed the Etherium train and am definitely kicking myself, like, "why did I not buy at $4?!?!" But Ripple is still cheap enough that one could go in with a clean $50 and come out with a good chunk of profit in my opinion, should the world not collapse in the meantime (buy physical silver :). I first mined LiteCoin with a couple Radeon 7850's but stopped when it went from ~$30 to half that. Bitcoin kills me. I know for a fact that a I had purchased about $10 worth back when my computer was using dial-up CompuServe and so somewhere in a landfill there is a hard drive covered in rotten food waste holding around $1,000,000 in BTC. Note to others/self, throw out the PC, save the hard drives. So, in short (LOL) how can I buy some XRP and SPR right now and are the wallets on PC only or can I have it on my iPhone/iPad as well? Thanks for the info and great post! I wonder if we can crowdsourcing, STEEMITsource a venture into going into landfills around major cities and colleges and digging deep enough to find old gaming PC's. I bet there are at least a few that are holding some precious BTC right now like those old Atari ET games haha. Atari or NES? Can't remember, nevermind.