As Bitcoin Sharply Rebounds, Ripple Is Tearing Itself Apart Over XRP

Bitcoin has swung higher after a sudden sell-off last week, climbing back above the psychological $10,000 per bitcoin mark.
 The bitcoin price added almost $1,000 in just a few hours yesterday, climbing some 6% over the 24-hour trading period, though many other major coins, including Ripple's XRP, failed to make similar recoveries with a civil war apparently brewing among the XRP community.

There did not appear to be any particular trigger for bitcoin's sudden recovery, though there are a number of high-profile landmarks this month which will have likely improved sentiment, including the closely-watched Bakkt cryptocurrency platform going live.


 The wider cryptocurrency market failed to rebound to the same extent as bitcoin, with ethereum adding some 4% over the trading period and XRP rising around 2% Meanwhile, some in the XRP community have expressed anger about Ripple selling XRP to its clients to fund various investments.

Ripple revealed in July a quarter-to-quarter increase of XRP sales of around 48%.
 "I'm thinking about forking XRP so we don’t have to deal with the founders dumping," Twitter user and XRP investor CryptoBitlord, wrote last week.
 "This will be a community effort." "[Ripple chief executive] Brad Garlinghouse, [and Ripple chief technology officer] Joel Katz, you now have 60 days to stop dumping XRP or we will stage a community takeover.



 If it’s a decentralized network like you say, we have the power to do it." The XRP price has slumped some 25% so far this year, while bitcoin has risen around 200%, with bitcoin's dominance, a measure of its weighting compared the rest of the cryptocurrency market, now at 70% according to CoinMarketCap data its highest in 18 months.
 Garlinghouse defended Ripple's sale of the tokens, saying: "Reality is we decreased our sales by volume quarter on quarter and since then the inflation rate of XRP circulating supply has been lower than that of bitcoin and ether."

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2019/09/03/as-bitcoin-rebounds-ripple-is-tearing-itself-apart-over-xrp/#67c3691f832c

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