Price of Ripple Plummets as Co-Founder Plans 9 Billion XRP Selloff
Ripple Labs co-founder Jed McCaleb has announced his intention to sell his sizable stake in the company's native digital currency. Known as ripples, or XRP, the currency was created as a unit of account and spam prevention tool within the Ripple Labs payment network. In a post on XRP Talk forum, entitled 'Selling my XRP', McCaleb made his intentions known: "I plan to start selling all of my remaining XRP beginning in two weeks. Because I have immense respect for the community members and want to be transparent, I'm publicly announcing this before I start." Price drop. In contrast to the....
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Photo by _Mo. Jed McCaleb, co-founder of Ripple Labs (formally OpenCoin), announced on Wednesday that he will be selling the entirety of his XRP holdings, resulting in a 40% loss of exchange value over 24 hours. McCaleb began his message by recounting his history with OpenCoin, and revealing roughly how much XRP he controls, I started working on ripple in the summer of 2011. I soon hired Arthur and David to help me. In 2012, I met Chris Larsen. He joined us about 5 months before ripple was launched. Chris, Arthur and I kept 20 billion XRP, of which 9 billion were mine. We gave the....