Ripple is an ecosystem for the transfer and exchange of commodities. While there is a currency native to Ripple called XRP that is effectively a digital currency in the same vein as Ripple, there hardly is anything in common. Ripple allows you to exchange ANYTHING... ranging from Canadian dollars to US dollars to beaver pelts to Bitcoin, etc.... It is an ecosystem, for lack of a better word. Please stop saying that this is even comparable to Bitcoin. It really is not.

Please use a freaking metric scale. Celcius or Kelvin. This old-school English measuring system has to stop. What is with you Americans and Burmese and Liberians?

Who gives a damn what the US government thinks or wants in this regard? Maybe these dumb regulations apply to US companies. Just don't be one then. If you are a British or Canadian company, do you really give a damn what the US government thinks?