Intimately tied with the decentralization of any digital asset is the incentive process that underpins the confirmation and validation of transactions and governance. For XRP, the decentralization process has been carried out by replacing Ripple maintained validators with those run by independent entities. There have been some very interesting Twitter discussions on the incentive process
On Feb. 6th, Ripple published an article on their Insights page that asked the question, Can the U.S. and China Attain a State of Competitive Coexistence? I don’t remember seeing any other articles on the Insights page that have dealt with geopolitical issues of this kind before. This could be indicative of an upcoming push
Something peculiar happens every time XRP spikes in value. This latest upshot is no different. As the value of our favorite coin goes up, the vultures come out, but instead of circling carrion, they wish to feed on success. They release statements disparaging XRP, hoping to catch the attention of Bitcoin maximalists and the fanatics
Insane, inane, inaccurate, and downright idiotic, XRP price predictions continue to spin wildly out of control. A recent attempt at predictive “modesty” was put out by news BTC, which speculates on the possibility of a bull run leading to a price of $14 per XRP. And while I think this is unlikely for the current
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
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
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
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
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
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.
