I profited off the Ripple increase as well, but I stayed cautious with it. The more and more I read in, I see that Ripple is really a "centralized cryptocurrency" allowing it to freeze and track tokens, with lots of regulation and oversight from banks.

XRB has been raising exponentially, and it seems to be a coin with a lot of potential, aiming to potentially be a Bitcoin competitor/successor. I definitely suggest you read a lot about it :)

I might do an article on RaiBlocks here on Steemit itself in the next few days.