The most annoying trend that I have noticed in both cryptocurrency and traditional news media is the tendency to report on the comments of Twitter users after a statement or event in the news. Their comments are not something the news media are interested in because they’re informative or exciting. The reason that these tweets
One of the missing cogs to mainstream cryptocurrency adoption has always been ease of use. The consequences of mismanaging private keys, seed words, and exchange passwords are catastrophic. Hardware wallets like the Ledger Nano S or the Trezor mitigate remote theft of cryptocurrency by hackers and malware authors, but for the general public, they are
Picture this: Sometime in the not too distant future, a game-developer releases the simulation of a digital world. It’s predicated on trustless, blockchain-inspired technology. The world has a set of rules, and they play out independently of any overseer interference. The world has a digital economy powered by blockchain technology and uses a native digital
The XRP community is no stranger to big tech censorship. From the shadow banning of Twitter accounts back in 2018 to the outright suspension of prominent XRP community members like @XRPTrump in early 2019, social media platforms have been enforcing their peculiar and contradictory rules towards XRP supporters for a long time. More recently, Twitter
Forte, the Ripple powered digital games marketplace, recently signed partnership agreements with five new gaming studios. Netmarble, Magmic, nWay, DECA, and HI-REZ studios will each integrate Forte’s platform into one of their games. Some of these partnerships are very promising; others are substanceless hype. The blockchain gaming space has been largely hype-driven, with several studios
When I was finishing my undergraduate degree and was required to complete a statistical analysis course at university, one of the first things our professor told us was correlation does not equal causation. And to drive this point home, he gave us a ridiculous example of two very unrelated things that could be shown to
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
