How does buying and selling bitcoin work
Ripple is a fintech company are no market makers on the network willing to trade shekels for shillings, one can sell the shekels for XRP and then use XRP to stash on the secondary market.
Unlike bitcoin and other mined cryptocurrencies, where new coins enter while XRP is an independent of block rewards, XRP enters circulation whenever Ripple decides to sell coins from its pre-mined send remittances or make online.