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Story: Brad Garlinghouse Ripple (XRP) A Consumer Speculator is not our Target Market

By Steven Anderson

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Dusting out an old interview from Yahoo Finance all Markets Summit: A speech by a senior SEC official basically said, Ethereum and Bitcoin are not securities.

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There will continue to be systems that will rely on central actors whose efforts are the key to the success of the enterprise. Doesn’t that sound a lot like Ripple? Like XRP?

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Brad Garlinghouse:  I think that sounds a lot like the ICO market.  I think these ICOs are issuing tokens.  They haven’t even released any code.

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One thing is if Ripple, the company shuts down tomorrow, the XRP ledger would continue to operate.

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Question:  But doesn’t your treasury management at Ripple hoard XRP, won’t that suggest for the success of XRP in the long run?

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No I don’t think the ownership of XRP gives us control.  It is an open source decentralized technology. Because, we own a lot of the asset - Saudi Arabia owns a lot of oil.

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The first one is that it is existing independently, the second one is the ownership point, and the third one is back to utility.  XRP is solving a problem – Securities don’t.

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A consumer speculator is not our target market. Our target market are financial institutions that we can solve a big problem measuring trillions of dollars using these…

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