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
Ripple has positioned itself to be an intermediary between the various international firms that exist in their own fiefdoms and it has developed a purpose that will allow it to coexist with the sword of Damocles that hovers over the cryptocurrency space – those central bank issued digital assets that threaten to throw the lesser
There’s an unmentionable barrier to mainstream XRP adoption that I see infrequently discussed in cryptocurrency circles. It is the complexity of storing these tokens securely in a self-custodial manner. The frequently repeated jingle “not your keys, not your crypto” is so often hurled in the direction of someone who has lost funds when a popular
In the past few weeks, Ripple has put considerable effort into bolstering its global regulatory team with the explicit intent to help educate policymakers on the crypto space as a whole. Ripple recently expanded its global regulatory team with the establishment of the first dedicated GR office in Washington D.C. by any major blockchain company.
*On Oct. 16, 2019, the developers of Gods Unchained published a blog that outlines upcoming improvements to their card minting process. The information contained below about network transaction costs will no longer be accurate once those changes are implemented.* Gods Unchained is a collectible card game (CCG) that gives players the option to store their
Charlie Lee, the founder of a cryptocurrency created out of thin air, accuses Ripple of creating XRP out of thin air to generate profit. This message will percolate through the disparate camps supporting one coin or the other until their proponents, who are more than capable of pointing out to the average layperson that the
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.” -George Orwell Google defines FUD as: “Fear, uncertainty and doubt, usually evoked intentionally in order to put a competitor at a disadvantage.” XRP is no stranger to FUD, both on social media and in tech
Six months ago, Brett Seyler published a three-part article series called Free-to-play Isn’t Free Enough (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Blockchain). I found his articles endlessly fascinating, and they sent me down the rabbit hole of possibilities for gaming and crypto. In his article, Seyler talks about the potential of the
