to many of the movers and shakers in the upcoming cryptocurrency round now bob and are viewed chris larson who is the c.e.o. and co-founder of open coin which is developing repl bob asked chris to describe what exactly rival is and here are his comments. point is the a for profit company it's a typical silicon valley structured company and it is responsible for building the software that that is the ripple network so way to look at it sort of the ripple network is analogous to the bitcoin network to the big point protocol in that it's it's an open protocol it's a distributed system and that system is really what determines both the currency that we've created as well as the payment network so where we're excited about it we think this math we call the math based currency movement we think it's it could be the biggest game game changer in finance since the internet was was created and what we're really trying to create is a second generation. korea seeing the incredible success of it and then maybe trying to iterate some additional improvements to some things that we think could be made bet