That's why Ripple maybe good for the growth of Bitcoin.
We need a trustworthy exchange that doesn't suck and with high trade volume.
But how do you buy ripple coins?
100 is cheap, not expensive.
I agree with sitarow, the new USA regulation about international wire transfer is a serious thing
and we recommend that you use this time to research alternative means to send funds to foreign locations
For example bitcoin

There is a bit of a built-in conflict in these two requirements. To be useful in the $60 trillion global economy, the quatloo must be issued in size: there must be enough of it around to grease transactions large and small in all sorts of markets. Using the U.S. dollar as a guide (since the USD is the primary reserve currency), we can estimate that a minimum of $1 trillion in quatloos would be needed to become a practical global currency.
To act as a reserve currency, another trillion or two would be needed, as nations would hold these quatloos as reserves. (Nations hold an estimated $7 trillion in USD reserves, about $3 trillion euros and $1 trillion or so in yen, pounds and other currencies.)
But issuing quatloos in these quantities would remove any scarcity value. Thus the issuer of the quatloo would have to carefully issue more quatloos only when demand justified the need for more monetary "grease" for the global economy.
They have no idea how bitcoin works. Lol at they thinking that you must "create" new money to have enough of them, their brain still don't know the concept of "more digits after the decimal point". Lol at the fact that an "issuer" must exists
No more
http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/27/technology/bitcoin-silk-road/index.html?iid=HP_LNAfter suggesting earlier this week that a link existed between the creators of Silk Road and Bitcoin, two Israeli computer researchers have retracted their report.