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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