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 <li><strong>Bitcoin advisor Max Keiser tweeted earlier today that XRP is centralized.</strong></li> 
 <li><strong>The allegation was made based on a patent that doesn’t mention digital assets and origins from 1991.</strong></li> 
 <li><strong>The XRP community called out Keiser and claimed that the patent has no connection with XRP.</strong></li> 
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<p>On September 24, Volcano Energy’s co-founder and crypto expert, Max Keiser tweeted that XRP is centralized. Keiser, also a Bitcoin advisor to El Salvador’s president, shared a screenshot of a United States patent created by Ripple’s Chief Technology Officer David Schwartz, dated June 18, 1991.</p> 
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   <p lang="en" dir="ltr">XRP is CENTRALIZED s*** as you can plainly see from the patent. <a href="https://t.co/6OolWXh28L" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://t.co/6OolWXh28L</a> <a href="https://t.co/TVfk1MWbg8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">pic.twitter.com/TVfk1MWbg8</a></p>— Max Keiser (@maxkeiser) <a href="https://twitter.com/maxkeiser/status/1705913610357133437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">September 24, 2023</a>
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<p>The patent, which doesn’t mention digital assets, pertained to a computer system comprising numerous interconnected personal computers collaborating to execute tasks, possibly alluding to the foundational distributed ledger technology supporting modern cryptocurrencies. However, the XRP community in Keiser’s comment section is <a href="https://twitter.com/TFalstrom/status/1705990219051516289" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claiming</a> that he is “confused as usual.”</p> 
<p>Meanwhile, Principal Developer Advocate at Protocol Labs, Matt H…</p>
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