• MoneyGram ends Ripple partnership
    Regulation,  Ripple,  XRP

    MoneyGram and Ripple part ways over XRP lawsuit

    The split comes a day after Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said that ‘even if Ripple goes away, XRP will keep trading’

    The move is the latest fallout from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s lawsuit against Ripple, its executive chairman Chris Larsen, and Garlinghouse. The suit says that the $1.3 billion in XRP sales made by Ripple over the past eight years, with $600 million made by the two executives, were illegal sales of securities.

  • Powell Kraken Bitcoin $1 million
    Bitcoin,  People

    Bitcoin $1M is ‘very reasonable’ says Kraken’s Jesse Powell

    The U.S. cryptocurrency exchange and bank’s CEO also said $10 billion is too low a price to take Kraken public

    “We can only speculate, but when you measure it in terms of dollars, you have to think [Bitcoin’s] going to infinity,” Powell said in a March 4 interview with Bloomberg. Pushed to be more specific, he said, “I think $1 million as a price target within the next 10 years is very reasonable.”

  • You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about (via Twitter).
    People

    ‘Gym Friend’ meme war: Troll trolled after trolling troll

    Blockstream CSO and well-known troll Samson Mow managed to turn a minor meme-poster into a crypto-Twitter celebrity by getting offended. Accusations of sexism, phony DCMA takedown notices, and censorship followed

    Blockstream CSO and thin-skinned troll Samson Mow's Gym Friend meme war turned a minor joke into a saga with allegations of sexism, fraud, and censorship.