# How to buy Ripple coin (XRP) NOW?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-buy-ripple-coin-xrp-now/805973
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [January 6, 2018, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-buy-ripple-coin-xrp-now/805973 "2018-01-06T07:24:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2018, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-buy-ripple-coin-xrp-now/805973/21 "2018-01-10T14:04:26Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#):
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> This is what I was responding to:
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> All I did was point out that while you were complaining about missing out on gains from the mean, unfair delay of having to wait a week, it actually saved you some money, and you might want to think about that. Sounds like you won’t, so good luck with that.
Your last claim assumes facts not in evidence, and in fact, later in this thread, I showed that I had considered that possibility, and knew what I would do in that eventuality.
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> I actually WAS prepared to see XRP go down (though taking off like a rocket would have been better), because I still believe it will rebound, and quite nicely. Buy what you believe in, and don’t panic. And if it doesn’t rebound, hey, there goes that romantic dinner for two at a mid-priced restaurant I could have spent that $100 on.
I’m done with you. You have contributed little to this thread but tangents and a feeling of superiority. You ignored the question in the OP, gratuitously opined on my ability to understand variable outcomes (multiple times), and now make claims about my abilities based on narrow quotes I’ve posted, and not the full content of my messages throughout the thread. Further, just because I might not have brought up facts doesn’t mean I don’t understand them - I don’t need to express knowledge of all things that are outside the scope of the original question, or we would be here a very long time indeed - and you have demonstrated that you will not read or quote from it all anyway.
In fact, if you bothered to read ALL MY POSTS in the thread, I addressed EVERYTHING you’ve claimed I did not. Add in the other folks saying you are presenting irrelevant/incorrect info, I see no reason to consider your posts any longer, and so I won’t. Get off your soapbox and learn (or bother) to read. You’ve just jumped on my last nerve, and for the last time. I would consider it a courtesy if you quit polluting my thread with irrelevant info and opinions not germane to the original question.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2018, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-buy-ripple-coin-xrp-now/805973/22 "2018-01-10T15:25:23Z")
> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#):
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> Well, since I am capable of thinking through cause-and-effect, entertaining various outcomes to a single act, and have even on rare occasion displayed signs of other forms of abstract thought, I can tell you that I CAN and HAVE imagined that.
**Moderator Note**
Dial it way way back unless you want to see this thread closed. I don’t see anything particularly insulting or condescending in **HMS Irruncible’s** posts. Getting overly upset (in this and subsequent posts) about people’s responses is not the way to go in GQ.
Colibri
General Questions Moderator
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2018, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-buy-ripple-coin-xrp-now/805973/23 "2018-01-10T16:49:43Z")
Well, if you rushed to buy some XRP just before Monday planning to sell them later Monday, I’ve got some good news for you. It [lost](https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/01/09/2054251/a-crypto-website-changes-its-data-and-100-billion-in-market-value-vanishes) 26% of its value in a 24 hour period.
Yep, this is definitely one fine thing to invest in.
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### Author:  [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2018, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-buy-ripple-coin-xrp-now/805973/24 "2018-01-10T17:21:38Z")
> [@ftg](#):
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> Well, if you rushed to buy some XRP just before Monday planning to sell them later Monday, I’ve got some good news for you. It [lost](https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/01/09/2054251/a-crypto-website-changes-its-data-and-100-billion-in-market-value-vanishes) 26% of its value in a 24 hour period.
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> Yep, this is definitely one fine thing to invest in.
He would have been fine had he bought a straddle option 🙂
@ **septimus** and obviously diversified service providers and exchanges would have made out even finer: they are not gambling.
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### Author:  [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2018, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-buy-ripple-coin-xrp-now/805973/25 "2018-01-10T21:39:56Z")
> [@Colibri](#):
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> **Moderator Note**
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> Dial it way way back unless you want to see this thread closed. I don’t see anything particularly insulting or condescending in **HMS Irruncible’s** posts. Getting overly upset (in this and subsequent posts) about people’s responses is not the way to go in GQ.
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> Colibri
> General Questions Moderator
Understood.
This thread is no longer about my question about the process of purchasing Cryptocoin, and has degenerated into several ppl questioning my choice to do so, and my inability to do it to their stringent standards. Since the purpose of the thread is being ignored and no further informative answers on the OP’s question seem to be forthcoming, I would ask you to please close this thread. Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2018, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-buy-ripple-coin-xrp-now/805973/26 "2018-01-10T21:55:09Z")
> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#):
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> Understood.
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> This thread is no longer about my question about the process of purchasing Cryptocoin, and has degenerated into several ppl questioning my choice to do so, and my inability to do it to their stringent standards. Since the purpose of the thread is being ignored and no further informative answers on the OP’s question seem to be forthcoming, I would ask you to please close this thread. Thanks.
I agree that it’s been sufficiently hijacked that it is better to close it.
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