If you’ve been in the crypto industry for a while now, you likely know of the controversy regarding XRP, specifically that fintech upstart Ripple owns a large portion of the cryptocurrency. While the company pledges to not have made the cryptocurrency, it undoubtedly owns a large sum of the asset, which is released from escrow...Read More
While XRP has already performed fairly poorly over the past seven days, some have begun to fear the cryptocurrency’s prospects are worsening with news that $230 million worth of XRP was unlocked from Ripple’s escrow wallet. For instance, BlockTV crypto analyst Joe Saz wrote: “Either way it’s bad. They send back to escrow to maintain...Read More
One of the controversial issues Ripple CEO recently talked about was “India v/s Crypto Regulation”. While RBI v/s Crypto is still a burning topic, Brad Garlinghouse stressed that the crypto industry must be ready to greet regulations with open arms for them to make any progress. Garlinghouse on Crypto in India Brad Garlinghouse during an...Read More
Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of the blockchain payment firm Ripple made optimistic predictions about the company as well as its native token, XRP. He sees XRP as Controversial Crypto by 2025. Speaking with CNN’s Julia Chatterlye, Garlinghouse shares his views on Ripple, XRP and company’s plan for 2020. He says, down the line in five years,...Read More
There is never a dull day on crypto twitter with endless drama, criticism, clap backs, and even personal attacks. The latest episode features Bitcoin maximalists and Ripple backers. Mike Novogratz Bashes XRP Ripple (XRP) recently came under a fierce attack by Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz saying that the cryptocurrency would underperform again this year...Read More
Ripple’s XRP is booming at the start of the new year, suddenly spiking by 8% on January 6. In the past few days, the coin started showing signs of a revival, and has now returned to $0.21. Futures Market Announcement Boosts Price Performance XRP has been pressured by its protracted slide, and has fallen almost...Read More
A recent episode of The Ripple Drop saw executives give their predictions on the state of the crypto world in 2020 and beyond. Ripple Team Looks to the Future Ripple has recently released a special holiday episode of ‘The Ripple Drop’, which looks back on the things that impacted the crypto and blockchain industry over...Read More
According to Ripple, XRP is 1/10th as volatile as fiat for cross-border payments. The current SWIFT system is so slow it exacerbates international payment risk. XRP payments clear so fast that the exchange rate risk is negligible. The math busters over at Ripple have crunched the numbers and conducted a study that concludes that XRP...Read More
While Bitcoin price makes a comeback, XRP community investors warn Ripple overselling the XRP tokens as part of the company’s investments. After last week’s poor performance, Bitcoin is back in action swinging above $10,500 levels. Bitcoin price started gaining momentum since Monday, September 2 and added $1000 over the last 24 hours. The Bitcoin price...Read More
An XRP evangelist is calling for a fork of the cryptocurrency to prevent Ripple from dumping coins on investors for profits. Let’s Fork XRP Every quarter, Ripple publishes a report showing the sales figures for the tokens within the preceding three months. Critics say the company is dumping these tokens for profits while the value...Read More
San Francisco-based crypto-lending and borrowing firm, Dharma, has clarified that it is not working actively on any projects related to XRP. The question arose on Twitter after the firm announcing its closed beta for Dharma version 2. While addressing the controversy surrounding the alleged case of “XRP dumping,” Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse had previously stated...Read More
Photo: Christopher Michel / Flickr The XRP crypto has encountered a lot of bearish volatility lately. The token closely linked to the Ripple FinTech Company has made many analysts think that its bearish trend has resulted from Ripple selling a large number of tokens onto the markets every quarter. The third biggest crypto, XRP, registered...Read More