The major issue i have with ripple is that they essentially minted all of the coins themselves and then are selling them off as time progresses. Its completely

The major issue i have with ripple is that they essentially minted all of the coins themselves and then are selling them off as time progresses. Its completely missing the point of decentralized cryptocurrencies! Anyone buying ripple is the greater fool. There is no way for users to contribute to the ripple network other than trading amongst themselves. If ripple decides to shut shop, thats the end of ripple. Also the small number of master nodes means easy targets for DDOS attacks...