If you thought bitcoin was hot, maybe you should learn about ripple. It’s another crytocurrency that’s been rocketing in popularity lately.

While it was trading at around $0.20 a few months ago, it’s now worth more than $2.25 per coin. Ripple is a little different than many other popular cryptocurrencies because it was created by a private, for-profit company that is still the biggest individual owner of the currency.

But ripple isn’t as easy to buy as bitcoin or other popular cryptocurrencies, since it isn’t available in popular apps such as Coinbase.

That means you need to jump through a few hoops to buy it. I tried several methods and think I’ve come up with the easiest:

Source: Tech CNBC
How to buy ripple, one of the hottest bitcoin competitors