Those that aren't buying are on the wrong side of the technology curve,
http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2014/10/10/weekend-read-the-imminent-decentralized-computing-revolution/
http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2014/10/10/weekend-read-the-imminent-decentralized-computing-revolution/
That is nonsense... Computing and the internet were extremely decentralized in the late 1980s and 1990s. The megatrend, unfortunately, is towards centralization, where user-programmable personal computers are being replaced by sealed terminals of cloud computing and storage, and fully distributed services like SMPT e-mail, USENET, and institutional ftp servers and webservers are being replaced by centralized services, all provided by a handful of mega-corporations - Facebook, Google, Amazon, ... -- which are beyond even the weak public control that democracy provides.
Bitcoin itself, by the way, is decentralized only in appearance. Decentralization is supposed to be good because it gives control and privacy to local communities and individuals. But the idea of bitcoin is "we cannot trust banks and local governments with power to control the monetary system, so let's give all the power to ONE global robotic Network that handles all money in the world, and cannot be controlled by humans". To me, it sounds like the plot of a 1950s sci-fi movie...
So you agree that Ripple will eventually overtake bitcoin. Understood.