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 <li><strong>Ripple faces a $125 million court penalty, significantly reduced from the SEC’s initial $2 billion proposal.</strong></li> 
 <li><strong>Vitalik Buterin criticized Ripple’s defense, questioning its claims against Bitcoin and Ethereum’s regulatory status.</strong></li> 
 <li><strong>XRP trades at $0.597292, with key support levels at $0.59 and $0.60 as Ripple’s legal battle continues.</strong></li> 
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<p>Back in December 2020, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin took a jab at Ripple’s legal defense. He singled out their claim that XRP shouldn’t be considered a security for “public policy reasons,” specifically because Bitcoin and Ethereum were supposedly “Chinese-controlled.”</p> 
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   <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Looks like the Ripple/XRP team is sinking to new levels of strangeness. They're claiming that their shitcoin should not be called a security for *public policy reasons*, namely because Bitcoin and Ethereum are "Chinese-controlled". <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/72x72/1f602.png" alt="😂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;"><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/72x72/1f602.png" alt="😂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;"><a href="https://t.co/ts02JqrTrB" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://t.co/ts02JqrTrB</a> <a href="https://t.co/mKwEzGIetk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">pic.twitter.com/mKwEzGIetk</a></p>— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) <a href="https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1341219519545556992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">December 22, 2020</a>
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<p>This was part of a larger back-and-forth. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse <a href="https://x.com/bgarlinghouse/status/1341193536780214273" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">had criticized the SEC</a> for being out of sync with other G20 nations and the broader U.S. government for allegedly favoring Bitcoin and Ethereum, arguing it unfai…</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://coinedition.com/buterins-2020-prediction-fails-xrp-thrives-despite-sec-battle/">Buterin’s 2020 Prediction Fails: XRP Thrives Despite SEC Battle</a> appeared first on <a href="https://coinedition.com">Coin Edition</a>.</p>

Buterin’s 2020 Prediction Fails: XRP Thrives Despite SEC Battle

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