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Positive news emerged for Ripple (XRP) late last week as the blockchain giant looks to get relisted on US coin exchanges. In a historic SEC lawsuit against Ripple Labs, a judge involved in the discovery process acknowledged XRP’s viability as both a currency and utility. In the same hearing, the SEC admitted that only Ripple and its affiliates are capable of illegally soliciting securities. Could this open the gateway for relisting?The Significance of XRP as a CurrencyJudge Sarah Netburn of...

Hester Pierce – the commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – admits that perhaps the agency’s reluctance to approve a bitcoin or crypto-based exchange-traded fund (ETF) was a bit of a mistake now that Canada has come so far in this department. Pierce: A Bitcoin ETF Is Now Being Pushed More Than Ever Over the years, many companies – from Van Eck to Bitwise – have submitted applications to get bitcoin ETFs approved by the Securities and Exchange...

More developments on the Ripple vs. the SEC legal front as the Commission has requested personal financial information of the company’s CEO, Brad Garlinghouse, and co-founder Christian Larsen.Simultaneously, the Japanese financial giant SBI Group has doubled-down on its support for Ripple by offering to pay its shareholders dividends in XRP.The SEC Seeks Personal Info on Ripple ExecsThe impending case between the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the blockchain payment processor...

Nearly a year after filing a lawsuit against YouTube for failing to prevent XRP giveaway scams, Ripple Labs has settled the issue without disclosing any further details.In the other ongoing Ripple-related lawsuit, the SEC has asked Judge Analisa Torres to deny the payment processor’s motions to dismiss.Ripple Settles with YouTubeCryptoPotato reported last year in April that the blockchain-based payment protocol undertook legal actions against the largest video-sharing platform – YouTube....

The SEC lawsuit against Ripple Labs continues to harm the payment processor as the company has officially ended its relationship with the international money transfer provider – MoneyGram. Nevertheless, Ripple hopes to revisit the relationship in the future, especially if it prevails against the Commission. CryptoPotato reported in late December 2020 that the US Securities and Exchange Commission brought charges against the blockchain-based payment processor and its executives for conducting...

With the impending legal battle between the SEC and Ripple, the CEO of the payment processor said that XRP will endure even if the company doesn’t.Simultaneously, Jesse Powell, the CEO of the veteran US exchange, Kraken, believes that offering XRP trading carries “huge asymmetrical risk.”XRP Will Endure, Says Ripple CEOEver since the US Securities and Exchange Commission brought charges against Ripple for conducting an unregistered security offering, the company’s executives have tried to...

John McAfee – a long-time bitcoin advocate and the man behind arguably the most prominent and recognized form of antivirus software in the world – is once again facing charges from the U.S. government. McAfee Is in Hot Water Again McAfee was initially arrested last October. He is now being charged with conspiracy to commit “commodities and securities fraud,” along with several other forms of fraud relating to new digital currencies he was either developing or had already...

A change in the administration of the world’s most dominant economy potentially spells a new era for nascent technologies like blockchain and cryptocurrency.Incoming regulations and policies can either accelerate growth or impede progress. Fully aware of this, America’s leading blockchain group is taking the bull by the horn. It is taking the plunge to make the Biden administration understand the value of cryptocurrencies.Crypto Trade Group Urges Treasury Secretary To Look Beyond The...

Ripple’s CEO Brad Garlinghouse told Reuters in an interview today that the company is still conducting and growing its business in the Asia Pacific region despite the SEC legal case against Ripple and its executives. The last four months have been some of the toughest for Ripple after the company was slammed with a $1.3 billion lawsuit by the United States Security and Exchange Commission (SEC). The regulator alleged that Ripple and its executives, including Garlinghouse, conducted an...

Ripple’s CEO Brad Garlinghouse and co-founder Chris Larsen have recently appealed to Judge Analisa Torres, filing two separate motions to dismiss the US SEC’s amended complaint against Ripple and its executives.Regulatory OverreachIn a letter dated March 3, 2021, the Attorneys representing Garlinghouse stated that the lawsuit filed by the SEC against Ripple was simply a “regulatory overreach.”They argued that the SEC’s allegations of Garlinghouse aiding and abetting the sale of XRP, which...