XRP Cryptocurrency Crashes Following Announcement of SEC Suit Against Ripple (techcrunch.com) 34
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The value of one of the world's most valuable cryptocurrencies is crashing and a recently filed SEC complaint is at the root of the free fall. According to CoinMarketCap, the XRP token's value has declined more than 42% in the past 24 hours and is down more than 63% from its 30-day high of $0.76. It now sits at just $0.27. XRP's price volatility has rivaled the most capricious of cryptocurrencies. Since reaching an all-time-high of $3.84 back in January of 2018, the coin has spent much of the past two years drifting closer and closer to pennies. In the past month, on the back of major rallies from other cryptocurrencies, XRP has seen its biggest rally in years, but those gains were all erased this week by the Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse's admission that the SEC was planning to file a sweeping lawsuit against the company during the current administration's final days.
The SEC's fundamental argument is that XRP has always been a security and that it should have been registered with the commission from the beginning more than seven years ago. The SEC claims that the defendants in the case -- namely the company Ripple, CEO Bran Garlinghouse and executive chairman Chris Larsen -- generated more than $1.38 billion from sales of the XRP token. The company's line has been that XRP is not a security but is, in fact, a tool for financial institutions, though the coin's volatility has discouraged banks from actually adopting the token. Meanwhile, XRP is present on a number of cryptocurrency exchanges, a fact which could expand the scope of this legal complaint and affect more players in the space.
The SEC's fundamental argument is that XRP has always been a security and that it should have been registered with the commission from the beginning more than seven years ago. The SEC claims that the defendants in the case -- namely the company Ripple, CEO Bran Garlinghouse and executive chairman Chris Larsen -- generated more than $1.38 billion from sales of the XRP token. The company's line has been that XRP is not a security but is, in fact, a tool for financial institutions, though the coin's volatility has discouraged banks from actually adopting the token. Meanwhile, XRP is present on a number of cryptocurrency exchanges, a fact which could expand the scope of this legal complaint and affect more players in the space.
Tulips (Score:1, Funny)
Is this what a wilting flower looks like?
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I'm thinking that XRP may have been the central tentpole of the whole cryptocurrency clown show, propping up the market with billions in imaginary funny money pulled directly out of the CEO's ass and paid for with real US dollars. People may hodl for a while but I suspect that if Ripple gets shut down completely, we'll know within a matter of days.
Beside XRP which is a scam / BTC is real! (Score:1)
1. Ignore the past 12 years of history
2. Shout about tulips, beanie babies and bubbles popping while #Bitcoin goes up
3. Claim they were right every time BTC falls 10%
What they won't do is understand the fundamentals of Bitcoin.
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What they won't do is understand the fundamentals of Bitcoin.
Fundamental security valuation is for deciding the fairness of market prices for the equity or debt of an enterprise that offers actual products and services. It has nothing to do with hipster collectibles.
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Are dollars a collectible?
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XRP isn't actually cryptocurrency. Its listing on crypto markets was more due to the lack of diligence on the part of exchanges than anything else.
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XRP is almost entirely irrelevant. So, no, not central and not a tentpole.
By the time this gets posted on slashdot... (Score:2)
Geek speculation galore
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Re: By the time this gets posted on slashdot... (Score:2)
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Reputation and integrity? Please. Keep spreading FUD AC!
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There is nothing special about bitcoin, AC. It is hardly unique.
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There are two things. How relevant those two things are is of course up to the person looking...
1) it was the first cryptocurrency made and the benchmark that others are measured against.
2) there is no single "founding company" that has benefited from it. In the others that I have seen the is a single party issuing the coins and thus selling them.
Personally for me the second is the important one..
Trial run (Score:2)
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So BTC is cryptocurrency but LTC isn't? Hell Litecoin is a crappy project, but it still uses cryptographic signatures and decentralized txn verification, making it crypto. Who is paying you to say this nonsense?
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That's a brain-dead answer. Clearly you're just pumping BTC. Good job pal.
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We already have something called "crypto"... it's the hiding of signals in what can be mistaken for noise or "steno"ed into a larger messages. This thing is cryptocurrency... and needs to be reported like currency transactions, or the IRS will attack.
Tornado in a tea pot? (Score:3)
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This isn't a stock, it's a currency. Forex markets can get stuck with a weird trade showing on the boards, and have been simplified by the introduction of the Euro taking some other volitile things off the market. IRS requires reporting of all such transactions... so this is the IRS's to clean up.
SEC lawsuit causes... (Score:3)
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Alright now, that's enough. Go sit in the corner and think about what you've just done.
Ripple? (Score:1)
Why the fuck is the SEC going after wine now?
Here, have a few fancy Ripple cocktails:
Flatipple sangria & Ripple
Champipple: Champagne & Ripple. Or, Ginger Ale & Ripple.
Manischipple: Manischewitz & Ripple.
Beaujolipple: Beaujolais & Ripple.
Cripple: Cream & Ripple.
Stripple: Straight Ripple.
Flapple: Flat Ripple. Or, Sangria.
Muscatipple: Muscatel & Ripple.
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Except Dogecoin, which has been 100% stable at an exchange rate of 1:1 for other Dogecoins since its creation.