Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse: ‘I Am Not An XRP Maximalist’
Brad Garlinghouse said he is not an XRP maximalist when asked why someone should choose XRP over other major cryptocurrencies. He also said XRP is not always the best answer for payment-related use cases.
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People comparing payment tokens or deciding which asset to hold are the group that sees this first. Garlinghouse’s remarks put XRP beside other large coins rather than above them, and that is the immediate change in how he described the asset’s role.
The practical difference is that XRP was not presented as a universal answer for payments. What stays the same is that XRP is still being discussed for payment-related use cases, but he said it is not always the best fit.
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| 24 days ago | Ripple Clears $1.50: XRP Price Prediction Says $2 Next? event | 1 actors in common · 3 news media |