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Cryptocurrency Ecosystem => Other Popular Cryptos / Coins => XRP - Ripple Forum => Topic started by: fitload on January 26, 2019, 10:55:31 AM
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Messari founder Ryan Selkis has been the subject of targeted harassment after the crypto research firm Messari suggested the market capitalization of Ripple’s XRP cryptocurrency may be overestimated by billions.
Messari claims that both XRP’s actual circulating supply and market cap are currently overstated by 46%, meaning that XRP’s market cap is closer to $6.9 billion than the $13 billion that it is listed at on CoinMarketCap.
Shortly after this reports went viral, the founder of Messari claimed he received a threatening phone call which threated him and his family, leading him to believe that the so-called 'XRP army' are up to their old tricks.
Someone just called me from a Nashville number and recited my wife’s birthday to me. Then hung up.@bgarlinghouse these are the type of animals you and your fucking company enable.
War.
— Ryan Selkis (@twobitidiot) January 24, 2019
Messari also admitted that Ripple had not given access to some of the data needed to conduct a thorough analysis of the real market capitalization and that some of the estimates, therefore “lack precision.” However, the researchers also added that...
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It is unfortunate that cunning competition is always used for the XRP project so that it can make its name always boom in the coinmarketcap row. Why not compete smoothly without threats or anything