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Use Case Type |
Use Case |
Description |
Requirements |
Requirements (online services) |
Deployment |
Underbanked |
Face to face exchanges and Ripple payments for people that does not carry electronic means of payment |
(todo: help find such community ) |
Ripple service e.g. ripplepay.com (todo: improve software usability) |
This is seen as take-off application | |
Small School community |
Same as "Underbanked" | ||||
Local business |
Same as "Underbanked" | ||||
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Ripple service e.g. ripplepay.com | ||||
Micro Donation |
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( todo: help find such beneficiaries ) |
Ripple service e.g. ripplepay.com |
This is seen as take-off application | |
Integrated resource accounting |
Use Ripple to track resources within other applications, such as distributed data transfer, Emule ... |
Ripple service e.g. ripplepay.com |
proposed here |
This is seen as the use case that requires less effort to take off.
Many proposals have been done about communities:
American metropolitan suburb is a complete social basketcase and the last place you could set up something based on trust. Although I live in a suburb, my real friends are artists that work in warehouse studios and live in coop housing in the bohemian parts of town and -- this is important -- meet 10-15 of their circle of 250+ friends face-to-face every day. Yes, some of them also use Facebook but it's considered to be a gimmick, not a substitute for social interaction.
pubs, if you're a regular, you can get a free beer and the barman will put a little marker on a beer mat with your name on it as a debt obligation. In some situations suppliers in the supply chain use mutual credit. A fridge wholesaler will deliver fridges to a retailer but only ask for payment three months later, an unofficial way of giving a loan to a retailer whose economic wellbeing is in the interest of the wholesaler.
their closest friends and, with sleeping up to 10 people in a room, they literally are 'close' enough to each other for a scheme based on mutual trust.
Ripple will be a real replacement for traditional payment system only when it will be accepted by a good percentage of the internet population. Reaching such an high critical mass is extremely difficult on a global scale. It is easier to reach a critical mass in a small internet community linked by a common interest. For example people that share an interest for example people that collects something.
Ripplexchange can be seen as a tool to create such internet community.