From what I understand crypto-currencies don't have one great source of "coins". If I understood that article correctly ripple is like the fed and essentially has control over all the money that goes into it's economy. unlike the fed it won't be able to take money out of the economy. Kind of seems like a big plan to make a ton of money by having people buy all the ripple coins with USD or whatever hoping that it will be the next big thing. I think this alone will deter people because the whole point of crypto-currencies is to have a currency not controlled by one source.
What does this even mean?
Are they trying to claim that they can't be DDOS'ed?