Ripple

Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, a California-based crypto start-up focusing on the banking sector, once again used an opportunity to bash a new digital token, issued by the investment banking giant JPMorgan. “If you give [JPMorgan] a dollar for deposits, they’ll give you a JPM Coin that you can then move within the JPM ledger. Wait a […]

The “war” between Ripple supporters and their opponents took a personal turn this week after a new report from crypto research firm Messari suggested the market capitalization of Ripple’s XRP cryptocurrency may be overstated by as much as USD 6.1 billion, based on “inflated circulating supply numbers.” In the report, Messari said XRP’s circulating supply and market capitalization could be […]

What is Ripple? Technically speaking, is Ripple a cryptocurrency in the mold of Bitcoin? The short answer is probably “no,” but that doesn’t stop it from often being lumped into that same category. What is Ripple? Originally released in 2012 as a subsequent iteration of Ripplepay, Ripple is a real-time gross settlement system (RTGS), currency exchange and remittance […]