Tag: Ripple Labs
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![The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: XRP and the SEC- Is XRP a security?]()
The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: XRP and the SEC- Is XRP a security?
The court proceedings between Ripple Labs and the Securities and Exchange Commission haven’t come to a conclusion, and we won’t be able to provide any definitive answers to what we as here today, but we can speculate based on the existing information. Determining whether or not the XRP cryptocurrency is a security is really beyond…
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![The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Ripple (XRP)]()
The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Ripple (XRP)
Ripple is the key product of San-Francisco based Ripple Labs. It acts simultaneously as a currency exchange, remittance network and settlement system, and was introduced to the market in 2012 on a distributed, open source protocol that supported fiat currency, cryptocurrency, commodities and other value stores, including mobile minutes and frequent flyer miles. Its cryptocurrency…
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![This week in crypto: standard regulation edition]()
This week in crypto: standard regulation edition
One of the biggest claims that hardline cryptocurrency aficionados offer is that cryptocurrency (and Bitcoin in particular) is regulation proof. It was a selling point for me back in 2014. You can’t regulate what you can’t find and decentralization comes specifically from that. The only way regulators could get at crypto is through the access…
