Did anyone see what just happend? Ripple adjusted their total supply, leapfrogging us on coinmarketcap.com. Strange timing, no? That's ok, Ripple, we LOVE a challenge. We blew past them once, we'll do it again.
Start your engines, gentlemen (and ladies).
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Ripple has 99 billion tokens though and most are at headquarters.
Ripple and Bitshares should have a symbiotic relationship. There isn't any competition between the two.
Ripple offers utility in the form of Gateways and the fact that those Gateways can be regulated entities. Bitshares offers a decentralized exchange with very low barrier to entry. There is no reason for them to compete when they need each other.