I do not like ripple, I never have. There is a long history of shady actions by the development team of that one and stellar. I refuse to buy or trade either out of principle.
That said, if theres an opportunity to make money off of it, then by all means go for it.
Yeah I understand why some people dont like ripple. The fact it can sustain a 1000 tranactions per second was what made me invest though. Hate the fact banks are liking it that obviously means they can control it in some way but $0.20 per xrp is a good price considering the amount of interest its getting.
If transactions/second interests you then perhaps look into bitshares. That blockchain can handle a staggering number of transactions per second.
https://bitshares.org/blog/2015/06/08/measuring-performance/
It was basically because i watched scaling videos on bitcoin. BCC 8mb blocks roger ver seems to prefer bcc not sure what to think really. IOTA is another i just recently purchased tangle looks good especially with the way tech is going and no transaction fees for micropayments.
Steem/SBD already does that. And does so much more then what people seem to realize. I honestly don't see too many cryptos competing with this one in a micropayments space.