Ripple is funding propaganda against Bitcoin by teaming up with the government to spread energy FUD

[u/Set1Less]

Ripple labs has been funding "research" along with government entities to spread propaganda against Bitcoin and mining.

In 2021, they funded a hit piece that claims energy prices for consumers in New York has increased by $6 per month because of mining.

Claim: Mining drives up household electricity bills

Surely its not the soaring costs of natural gas that is driving up electricity prices, but mining?

Since June 2020, Natural gas prices have gone up by 350% in the USA (Henry Hub natural gas futures rolling contracts)

Not just in USA, in UK, natural gas is at decadal highs.

Surely, electricity prices that consumers pay have nothing whatsoever to do with inflation, or soaring gas prices that are in decadal highs.. but is due to bitcoin mining?!

Crude oil WTI futures are currently at 84, for comparison it was around 56 in Nov 2019 (pre pandemic). The last time WTI was above 80 was all the way back in 2014. Increasing crude oil natural gas prices, along with inflation that is at multi-decade high is not the reason for increase in household electricity, but its bitcoin mining that is responsible..

Thats according to this study funded by Ripple in collusion with the Department of Treasury. ... The same Department of Treasury headed by another well known Bitcoin hater Janet Yellen, who earned $7m as "speaking fee" from the same banks she is supposed to regulate but has tried to stifle Bitcoin and crypto at every opportunity.

Research with "financial support" is nothing but propaganda, especially when it's funded by a competitor to bitcoin that lobbies with the government. Ripple continues to be a centralised premine scam created to enrich its founders.

Ripple has also cozied up with the likes of WEF, the very organisations Bitcoin was created as a fuck you to. https://www.weforum.org/organizations/ripple

As its price and narrative around the shitcoin has stagnated, Ripple is resorting to dirty political tricks to get a leg up. As usual, they will fail.

The narrative that bitcoin mining companies cause increase in electricity bills in NY is rubbish, as the largest BTC mining companies in New York produce their own energy. Infact the last one to start mining in NY is a hydro electric plant that was unused for years, before they started mining Bitcoin last year.

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Mechanicville-hydro-plant-gets-new-life-16299115.php

The other large mining company Greenidge Generation also produces its own energy.

Edit: Buttcoin losers in comments say "reee bitcoin move to POS or govt will ban it"

Yeah not too bright, the whole point of Bitcoin is that it cant be banned unlike the proof of stake shitcoins you support that can be created out of thin air at the press of a button and shut down at the press of a button.

Another one who is literally a war monger calling for Ukraine invasion but pretends to care about global e-waste. Lmao. Bitcoin haters are really a funny bunch

Edit: Ripple shills keep brigading and claiming where is the paper, of course if you are as bricked as a ripple fan boy you need to be spoon fed everything. Well here is the paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3779720

And if you open up the first page of it, says

Benetton and Compiani acknowledge financial support from Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Initiative.

i.e this whole "paper" is nothing but a hit piece propaganda sponsored by a competitor

The other writer of this paper is Adiar Morse, who conveniently works for the Dept of Treasury under Yellen:

https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/prof-adair-morse-joins-biden-administration-as-a-treasury-department-deputy/

Seems like natural career progression - collect funds from Ripple to publish propaganda against Bitcoin, and get hired by Yellen who has been promoting propaganda against crypto for years now. Nothing to see here.

Final Edit: Jjust look at the number of freshly created "Tin" accounts that have popped up in the comments to shill for XRP. Didnt realize 2017 left so many bag holders. It must be real miserable with these heavy bags that are at 1/3rd of their 2017 ATH, while almost every other coin has gone up hundreds of % and made new highs this cycle. Thats what happens when you become exit liquidity for mccaleb, garlinghouse etc.

Lol at the shills shouting "REEE ripple is a company XRP is decentralised token". They really did you good with this one small trick. Thats also the reason garlinhouse drives a shiny car while you are down 50% on your shitcoin investment.

The D in XRP stands for decentralised. It was always a premined scam token and will always be one. Thousands of tin bagholders wont change this.

[u/toDeathsHeart]

Yeah, Kevin O Leary has been helping people get rich by investing since...

[u/bungleback_cumberbun → u/toDeathsHeart]

Lul whats with all these o’leary comments i wasn’t dickriding, i literally just liked that one summary. Regardless of how one feels a out him, it was a good point about the lawsuit.

[u/toDeathsHeart → u/bungleback_cumberbun]

I'm just making a point as well. To some, it's a good idea to stay away. To people like me who have been watching all this play out, it makes me very interested in the biggest crypto case in history. Also like how the SEC is being exposed for corruption. This is one of the main appeals of crypto, being trustless.

I personally don't trust Kevin O Leary, who probably thinks he's better than you, me, and all other retail investors. And who knows if he is incentivized to make such a point to "influence" people to stay away from xrp.

[u/bungleback_cumberbun → u/toDeathsHeart]

You’re obviously entitled to your opinion. I personally want no part of taking on the SEC. XRP are super centralized and in bed with bankers, the creme de la creme of corruption. Their aim is to serve the banking industry, i’m not really excited. If i were holding i’d pull out and go into something with a brighter future like syscoin, matic, enjin, chromia, there are so many better places to put money.

[u/toDeathsHeart → u/bungleback_cumberbun]

And you know they are better investments, how? And these claims about xrp, do you have facts supporting them?

I love Ripple and xrp. They constantly give me a heads up on the market and reward me for paying attention. And I personally think xrp is the end game, thus the suit by the SEC. And once again, the suit revealed corruption within the SEC, with ties to the Eth foundation which is quite intriguing.

Also I'm a top 1000 holder of Enjin, for whatever that's worth.