Thanks guys, very impressed with all the answers. Its a good community it seems. I am sure I will have more questions in the coming days as I think over investing, but for starters.

1.) Ripple is centralized now, yet they are in the process of testing and creating decentralized nodes to remove this centralization. I am no die hard XRP fan boy trying to spread FUD into the BTS community, but when this occurs, what benefit will BTS have over XRP? XRP has the same abilities to create IOU's and pegged assets. To me it seems the best angle BTS has would be to go the consumer/public route while Ripple continues to make way with FI's.

2.) Using XRP as an example, $1 is widely considered the bench mark of success, the end value so to speak. However the broader range I have seen has been between 1 and 7 USD. Mathematically speaking, I believe like ~$20 dollars is the uppermost limit of feasibility. Do you guys have any such speculative values for BTS? What is your "end value"

Hello everyone,

I am new to BTS. I know its a bit much to ask, and I could most likely look it all up, but in the interest of saving some time, can anyone answer a few of these questions:

1.) Simplistically, what is BTS, and what gives it potential?
2.) What is the consensus on the speculative value of BTS?
3.) Can you compare BTS to NXT?

I have a large investment in XRP and that is what I am most familiar with, so feel free to bring up XRP or tie it in at any point. In addition to xrp, and through the ripple platform, I am invested in Grantcoin (GRT) and BTC as well. I have also been very interested and slightly invested in Maidsafe. Besides that I have some smaller investments into CANN and for ish and giggles, HTML5.