Talk:Ripple monetary system

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[edit] Copied almost straight from the Ripple homepage

The text of this article is nearly identical to paragraphs on the "What is Ripple?" section of the Ripple project's front page. It appears that it was effectively copied from that section by Ryan Fugger, the leader of the Ripple project, on 16 April 2007, and has undergone only a handful of minor changes since.

I'm pretty sure there's no copyright issue (if for no other reason than that the author of the Ripple homepage effectively GFDL'd his text by copying it to Wikipedia). And there's no advertising/self-promo issue, as the text is pretty balanced. But there may be a POV issue.

I noticed this because I have essentially the same POV as Ryan, and I've had discussions with other people who disagree with me, and their POVs are not represented here at all.

I think the article could use a section describing both generally-perceived risks that are definitely handled by Ripple (especially the potential for scam/fraud and for money laundering) and actual risks that may not be (any government could declare Ripple a form of illegal private currency at any time and freeze trading--as happened with Hawala in some jurisdictions). Most, but not all, of these can be found in the Ripple FAQ; none of them are dealt with here.

(Actually, the anon update of 12 June did add a section that effectively answers the "Ripple is just an over-complicated version of LETS" objection, which is one I considered, but have never heard from anyone else.)

The problem with adding such a section is that it's hard for any of it to be verifiable. Questions that are in the FAQ can at least cite the FAQ (to the extent that it counts as a trusted/notable source), but for anything else (like the government issue), it seems like original research, or at best "common sense." I'm not sure how to resolve this, but I think it does need resolution. --75.36.135.23 04:11, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ripple is already cited by several peer-reviewed published articles

According to Google Scholar, Ripple has been cited by several peer-reviewed published articles, making it a notable project. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&cites=4151406945953135708 Touisiau (talk) 23:37, 12 December 2007 (UTC)