Tag Archives: Brad Garlinghouse

Recently, Ripple announced a new office in Washington, D.C. which will be lead by Michelle Bond. As they describe the new premises, they chose this location deliberately in order to be closer to the White House and the U.S. government, in general. They want to educate the policymakers on the massive benefits that cryptocurrencies and blockchain offers to the world of finance and technology. Ripple has previously set a plan for a global expansion in order to “spread the word” about their new...

Many people have always wondered what Ripple Labs CEO Brad Garlinghouse’s position on Bitcoin has been and what his motivations were for developing XRP. He revealed all this and more in crypto evangelist Anthony Pompliano’s Off the chain podcast. The podcast revealed quite a bit of detail about XRP and also showed the mindset of the cryptocurrency innovator. In a rare moment of truth where he bared his soul during the podcast, Brad revealed his first encounter with Bitcoin occurred in 2012 at...

In a recent interview on Anthony Pompliano’s Off The Chain podcast, Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple, provided unprepared answers to questions sourced from crypto Twitter regarding the operations of Ripple and XRP, Ripple’s XRP sales, and the cryptocurrency ecosystem broadly. Garlinghouse recounts discovering Bitcoin and cryptocurrency while attending the Dialog conference – a two-day “thought retreat“ organized by Peter Thiel and Auren Hoffman, in 2012. Despite subsequently investing...

The chief among other cryptocurrency exchanges by volume, Binance, released a statement on Thursday to notify all and sundry that a new trading pair has been included in its decentralized exchange (DEX), and this will be the second cryptocurrency to be accorded such privilege.The trading pair XRP-BNB is listed as XRP-BF2, and Binance has already minted 10 million of the pair for its decentralized exchange. Before XRP-BF2 came along, Binance had added a Bitcoin pegged variant, BTCB, in June...

Ripple CEO, Garlinghouse, has sounded an alarm geared at calling the United States government to action, reiterating that China’s goal with the CBDC is to destabilize the US dollar. The CEO urged the government of the United States during an interview with Fox Business to be at the forefront of the crypto revolution, instead of China.Garlinghouse talked about the tech boom back in the early 2000s and how the US took control of the industry and benefited immensely from that...

As tensions continue to flare between the U.S. and China amid further trade war competitiveness, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has pitted the two superpowers against each other yet again, suggesting that America is falling behind China on crypto innovation. A ‘Call to Action’ China’s work on its central bank digital currency (CBDC) has stepped up in recent months. The project, which has been in production since 2014, is inching ever closer to realization, and it has some critics concerned...

Photo: ShutterstockWhen Facebook announced it is going with its own cryptocurrency Libra back in June, the CEO of Ripple Labs Inc., a US-based technology company, Brad Garlinghouse, was one of its first open supporters.Actually, he was so thrilled by the whole project and all the ‘fuss’ it had gathered in the crypto community that he decided to send the champagne to the Zuckerberg & Co.Be it as it may, a hard times has come to Libra, even before it actually came to circulation. As we had...

Ripple‘s XRP token has been one of the poorest performers in the top ten cryptocurrencies in the market. XRP has shed more than 60% of its market cap year-to-date. However, XRP price’s sudden surge over the last few days has drawn investor attention back to the third-largest cryptocurrency.If we look at the weekly chart of CoinMarketCap, we can see that XRP has jumped by over 10% in just the last three days. At press time, XRP is trading at $0.27 with a market cap of just above $12...

Ripple, the cryptocurrency firm behind the XRP token, has requested a federal court dismissal of a class-action lawsuit; all while ignoring one major issue, XRP's security status. The original lawsuit was first launched back in early 2018, by a handful of disgruntled XRP investors. The plaintiffs claimed that Ripple violated securities laws during the initial offering of the token; stating that XRP was intrinsic to Ripple's operational integrity. The relationship between XRP and Ripple has...

When crypto giant Ripple sent 100 million XRP to Jed McCaleb, the transaction did more than just make its long-departed co-founder $26 million richer. | Source: ShutterstockWhen crypto giant Ripple sent 100 million XRP to Jed McCaleb over the weekend, the transaction did more than just make the project's long-departed co-founder $26 million richer. It also sent the so-called "XRP Army" into a tizzy.Why Ripple Is Paying XRP to a Rival Cryptocurrency's FounderMcCaleb, who had a messy breakup...