Ripple Settles $1 Million Lawsuit With Former Executive and Founder

Ripple Settles $1 Million Lawsuit With Former Executive and Founder

A months-long legal dispute involving distributed ledger technology startup Ripple and its co-founder Jed McCaleb has come to an end. Though the settlement was announced in an 11th February post on the main Ripple forums, the dispute dates back to last spring when digital currency exchange Bitstamp filed suit over dueling claims on nearly 100m XRP – the native token of the distributed Ripple network – an amount worth just over $1m when the suit was filed. At the time, Ripple alleged that McCaleb had violated a 2014 agreement governing the sale of his XRP holdings, numbered at 9 billion....


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