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‘Government has become addicted to indirect regulation’ — Ripple CTO

DIGIT — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 16:42:43 +0000

In a recent Joe Rogan interview, Mark Andreesen revealed that the debanking of tech firms caused the Silicon Valley shift toward Trump.

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DEBT Box urges judge to toss suit as SEC got case ‘badly wrong’

DIGIT — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 03:34:28 +0000

The SEC initially misled a court to freeze DEBT Box’s assets, which has since been reversed, and the firm cited the incident as grounds to dismiss the suit.

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Ripple CTO says ‘tide is turning’ on US regulatory environment

DIGIT — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 14:47:30 +0000

David Schwartz believes the U.S. legal system is looking more skeptically at SEC cases against various cryptocurrency industry participants.

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Nifty News: NFT marketplace says no to opt-in royalties, Visa jumps on World Cup NFTs and more

DIGIT — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 05:56:33 +0000

A new NFT marketplace is giving a hard pass to optional royalties, bucking the trend, and NFTs are getting a new home on Ripple’s XRPL.

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Ripple and Peersyst Devs Push XRP Toward Ethereum Compatibility With First Phase of an EVM Sidechain

DIGIT — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 21:30:09 +0000

According to an announcement from Ripple’s core development team Ripplex, developers have introduced the first step toward Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatibility with the XRP-based sidechain XRPL. The XRPL is now live on Devnet and developers can “assess available technologies,” alongside deploying “existing Solidity apps on the EVM sidechain.” Ripple Core Developers and Peersyst Reveal […]

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‘Overtime, we will see the NFT market broaden,’ says Ripple’s CTO David Schwartz

DIGIT — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 17:14:00 +0000

Ripple may be a bit late to the NFT party, but the XRP Ledger will attempt to become an industry game changer and challenge Ethereum’s hegemony.

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Ripple CTO says community could force the company to burn 48 billion XRP

DIGIT — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 02:53:37 +0000

Ripple could be forced to burn its entire XRP holdings if the community votes for it, the company’s CTO David Schwartz has confirmed.

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Regrets — Ripple’s CTO sold 40,000 Ether for just $1 each

DIGIT — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 05:46:17 +0000

Ripple’s David Schwartz has revealed that he sold 40,000 Ether at $1 each as part of a risk management plan made with his spouse in 2012.

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Google Profits off Impersonations of Banned Cryptocurrency Celebs and Companies

DIGIT — Fri, 01 May 2020 11:50:29 +0000

Cryptocurrency companies are banned on Google but the platform is allowing phishing sites to impersonate them. London-based bitcoin exchange Coin Corner showed that a fraudulent site mimicking it is allowed on Google’s advertising platform though its own evidence-backed appeals of legitimacy to Google Ads have been constantly ignored. Coin Corner marketing manager Molly Spiers says […]

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XRP Sentiment Manipulated by Thousands of Bots, Analyst Claims

DIGIT — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 16:53:17 +0000

In January, news.Bitcoin.com reported on the so-called ‘XRP army’ harassing Ryan Selkis, the cofounder of cryptocurrency data startup Messari. A recent data analysis has now alleged that the XRP army of shills is compromised of thousands of bots trying to sway market sentiment across social media channels like Twitter. Also read: Jeff Garzik Subpoenaed in […]

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