Yup I have 3 days of submitted as well,
glad to see it wasn't only me.
Besides it's fun to get a bunch all at once!

If your account was unfunded (i.e, had less than 20? XRP), any transaction lower than those 20 XRP, would have failed, until you earned those 20 XRP or more. So, you didn't do anything wrong if already have gotten XRP's.

I've mentioned several times before the importance of having a community to attracting and retaining new members. That was in the context of trying to goad the sedated snail that seems to be WCG into upgrading it's forum software.

But communities are also essential to the adoption of new digital currencies like XRP as you can see from this article about Dogecoin and this more general article on cryptocurrencies.

Since Ripple Labs, might have a bit more influence with WCG than any of us do - not to imply that we have any influence at all of course - I'm posting this here so that they can at least consider what the forum here might mean to them.

RL needs as many people as possible crunching in order to get their XRPs distributed - except that isn't really happening at the moment. In fact we are still losing active members as can be seen from the third chart down here . Even the staff here should be able to see we are back to total active membership levels that we haven't seen since mid-December when the XRP giveaway was just starting to gather steam.

In other words, the net result from Ripple Labs generous gift to WCG is approaching zero.

Since no one at WCG seems to give a squat about that, maybe the people at Ripple Labs might. Let's see if maybe they can coax some motion from WCG's fat ****.



*edited to appropriate forum language - ErikaT

I have nothing but love for RL. WCG reminds of what the DMV is like - people doing a job they don't actually want or care about but due to plain old laziness or inertia, can't manage to find anything better.

And as for whether I'm right or wrong about - well, anything I've said here, I would urge you to read the articles I linked to. You had the time to compose a response so maybe a few minutes of reading would help you understand.

As for what RL can or can't do, you're right. Maybe they can't do anything either. They could of course pull their giveaway and move it to a more responsive project like maybe the one the LHC runs. I would follow them there in an instant.

But the fact of the matter is that WCG isn't doing a d*mned thing to keep the new members that the giveaway is attracting and that IS the fault of WCG. Therefore I would hope that RL would wise up to that and do whatever they need to in order to get their XRPs distributed in a timely fashion and to build the sort of community needed for those XRPs to become a viable currency.

Thanks for that information Johnnie - as always.

However the increase in run time can just as easily be explained by more people moving from their current team to the RL team. Personally I regard that as much more likely in the face of declining membership.

I'm afraid however that it's probably a moot issue. RL isn't stupid and certainly realize that at the current rate, it will be decades before they distribute all of the remaining 66B XRPs.

I think they came to WCG in particular because they believed that we wanted to grow into something that would change the world - and most of us do want that. Unfortunately the people and company we depend on can't be counted as supporting that goal.

They make the forum difficult to use for new members who are used to a much more refined forum software package and seem to be doing nothing in terms of securing new projects for us to work on.

Beyond that, anything they actually do deign to attempt takes virtually forever to accomplish.

RL will realize this before long and move to a BOINC project that actually welcomes them and what they can do to boost membership. That place is clearly not WCG.