XRP are the units of the new Ripple.com system.
Where can I find how much they're worth right now? Historic charts?
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Sign up to join this communityUpdate 2: There are now more traditional price / volume charts:
Update: Ripple Live Orderbook and Charts by webr3 provides various bitstamp style charts and orderbooks for various XRP/xxx pairs.
Update: The Ripple Ledger Explorer by melvster shows a graph of Ripple vs Bitcoin prices. It also shows recent ledger activity.
Early on there was also a manually-updated list at:
The discussion there had a nice example of what an order book snapshot from the ripple client looks like, with headers.
The #ripple-market irc channel at freenode.net also shows real-time trades via a "Streaming exchange feed for notable #ripple gateways" all trades. You can see it via
A trade example looks like this:
< ripplebot> TRD bitstamp 730.698114 @ 48,713.2076 BTC rwdLV79WzXmFuzP2cBwTG6mtXcfSnCjtoF #142
I assume that means that the price for that transaction was 48,713 XRD per BTC, and I'm guessing that 730 XRD were traded at that price via bitstamp, but I haven't seen good documentation yet.
Here is an example ASK report:
ASK bitstamp 347.152555 @ 41,854.251463 BTC rwdLV79WzXmFuzP2cBwTG6mtXcfSnCjtoF #143
The code for ripplebot can be found at
I just made a simple website which shows XRP price for different gateways. No historic charts yet.. http://xrpvalue.com/
Since the internal trade history will be public, I guess a service could be built to show price statistics. You would watch the prices of the most traded IOUs, presumably from gateways. Examples: wexUSD, wexBTC, wexEUR, etc.
The site could have several tools to group several currencies of the same denomination (but different issuers) averaging by volume or something like that. It could be similar to bitcoincharts, but pulling the data from the ledger instead of the exchange's servers.
I guess the core needs to be released first.
The orderbook (found inside the Ripple client once you're logged in and funded) does in fact show the price, it's just a huge spread and confusing UI that makes it difficult to understand now.
Right now, the best bid is:
10BTC 10BTC 5,000.00000XR
And the best ask is:
43,998.00000XRP 10BTC 10B
Which means someone is proposing to buy BTC at the price of 5000 XRPs, and another person is offering to sell BTC at the price of 43,399.8 XRP. So, the spread is huge, but one can still say the "price" of 1 XRP right now is somewhere between 0.000002 and 0.0002 BTC
I realize I'm replying to a post of 2013. I'm looking for historical Ripple pricing in USD from it's launch in February 2nd, 2013 till the end of 2013. Does anyone know where I can find this?
It will be worth different things to different people in different instances. There won't be any global price just like there isn't any global price for bitcoin. Multiple exchange rates exist on multiple exchanges. MtGox is just the biggest and thus often quoted. Some people are paying more some people are paying less than the MtGox rate. This creates opportunities for arbitrage. This only accounts for other currencies and not for example how many gallons of gas a bitcoin is worth.
You can find how much one XRP (ripple) is worth at...
http://www.RipplePrice.com and also at http://www.DigiPrices.com
The rate shown is the mid-market rate at Bitstamp.
Disclosure: I created these sites. I'd appreciate any feedback.