You can definitely see the impact of them winding down, daily payout is down significantly.

More important the overall value of Ripple seems to be falling significantly as well. Maybe when this is completely wound down there will be some recovery. Suspect maybe dumping it for what they can get.

At it's present value 100,000 WCG daily points isn't worth much more than a penny when translated to USD.

I didn't sell any but did give some away. I don't really like giving personal information to organizations I don't know and don't really trust any of the existing "exchanges" to keep that information private. I've accumulated maybe 100k XRP to date - which from my point of view isn't really worth the trouble of selling. Technically I would have to declare them as income, at least I think so, and there's no way I'm going to try to figure that mess out.

My intention is to treat them like bitcoin 5 years ago - something you need to hang onto for at least a few years before you see any sort of return, if you ever actually do see one. At that point I would probably declare the whole thing a capital gain.

I do have doubts about RL's strategy for getting people to adopt Ripple. They don't seem to be doing much to bring in vendors willing to accept XRP's as payment and w/o that I don't see a lot of people adopting their protocol. I hope I'm wrong about that. They have some big announcement of some sort coming at the beginning of May - I guess to try to develop some buzz after the end of Computing for Good. So we'll see.

Thanks. That is really extraordinary. I think a lot of people don't realize that the giveaway is ending and it took this long for them to find out about it in the first place. In a way it might end up being a blessing since maybe a lot of them won't bother to uninstall BOINC once they stop getting payouts, especially if they don't notice any change in the performance of their computers.

The XRP giveaway dropped down to 500,000 today. Looks like we're approaching the end of it quickly.

I assume that you'll be like me and stick it out until the actual end.

If this is the case, I think we might actually get a bigger payout since more and more people will be leaving it, and that 500,000 gets split among everyone, more people who leave the more money is given to each remaining person.