Head Ripple Brad Garlinghouse pokes fun at Bitcoiners who are stuck in the same place due to the BTC market lull.
Boring weekend, anything interesting happening? — wrote Garlinghouse.
Bitcoiners took Brad's words personally, apparently because the calm set in over the weekend, and the BTC rate barely changed. However, on Monday, the flat was replaced by a downward trend, and the coin has already fallen in price by 4,5%. At the same time, the value of the asset almost fell to the support barrier, located at the $100,000 mark.
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Well, do you know a character named Garlinghouse who created XRP and gave himself 50% of the coins? The worst part is that he sells 10 million tokens every month [ XRP ] to buy myself a new Porsche,” a blockchain enthusiast with the pseudonym Si Fry, who is obviously a supporter of Bitcoin, responded to Brad.
Feud between Bitcoin supporters and supporters XRP began last Friday, when the head of the mining company Riot Platforms Pierre Rochard accused Ripple in an attempt to prevent the creation Bitcoin -fund in the US. Bitcoiner and director of the crypto company Strike Jack Mallers He explained , that the issuer XRP is spending millions of dollars to fight the implementation of the idea of establishing a BTC reserve fund.
Garlinghouse neither confirmed nor denied this information. He noted that his firm is lobbying for the creation of a multi-currency fund of digital assets, which will include altcoins along with Bitcoin. It is no secret that Ripple would benefit greatly from inclusion XRP to the list of digital assets represented in the US government reserve, announced the country's president, Donald Trump.
