Author: Anthony

XRP and the Blockchain Panacea

The Blockchain Panacea is the tendency for developers to attach the blockchain to technologies that either don’t need it to function effectively or to ideas that haven’t worked in the past with the expectation that the blockchain can somehow make them viable. The blockchain and decentralized digital assets solve specific problems very well, but they

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XRP Headlines and the Shaping of Market Expectations

Headlines are everything. They convince a user to click on an article; They tell potential readers what the article is about. But more recently, they’re used to shape public opinion on a topic and inject the author’s thoughts into current events and news. This problem is acute amongst cryptocurrency publications, and it is often directed

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XRP Disinformation in the News

I’ve been watching this peculiar phenomenon unfold in the XRP crypto news space. I’m not sure what to call it, but a publication will write a poorly sourced article which will subsequently be used as a source in a different article, and so on until you’ve got a daisy-chain of disinformation stretching across publications. Even

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The Anatomy of a FUD article – A response to the recent Messari XRP post

I cannot tell if this messari.io post by Ryan Selkis is a FUD article or an honest misinterpretation of the data – largely because I can’t imagine that someone who runs a service advising people on cryptocurrency investments is capable of this kind of selective reading. At any rate, Selkis states: “We’ll go for a

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Illicit Activity on the XRP Ledger

Elliptic, a data analytics firm that specializes in spotting illicit activities on the blockchain, released a report that identified $400m worth of XRP that the firm tied to illicit activities, ranging from thefts to scams and the sale of stolen credit cards. The illicit activity only represents 0.2% of the total XRP ledger activity. These

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A Death Toll Measured in Satoshis

If I were an cryptocurrency investor who was trying to determine major driving factors towards crypto adoption by scanning recent articles from digital-asset publications, I might conclude that all forms of conflict, either internal or external, are driving factors towards positive price movements. War, genocide, social collapse, it would seem, are all good for Bitcoin.

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