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Apple Hint, XRP Dump, Mystery $1 Billion Transfer: Hodler’s Digest, Sept. 2–8

Published 09/08/2019, 04:15 PM
Updated 09/08/2019, 04:41 PM
© Reuters.  Apple Hint, XRP Dump, Mystery $1 Billion Transfer: Hodler’s Digest, Sept. 2–8

© Reuters. Apple Hint, XRP Dump, Mystery $1 Billion Transfer: Hodler’s Digest, Sept. 2–8

Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.

Ripple transfers 500 million XRP from its escrow walletRipple turned heads this week when data from Whale Alert suggested the fintech startup has transferred 500 million XRP tokens from its escrow wallet — funds worth $130 million. This isn’t the first time that the California-based company has executed such an enormous transaction, and some factions of the XRP community are angry. Concerned that prices are crashing, Twitter user Crypto Bitlord started a Change.org petition urging the fintech startup to stop dumping, adding: “It’s amazing this sort of behavior is widely accepted in the crypto world.” Thursday saw yet another petition adopt a more sarcastic tone, urging Ripple to increase the dumping of XRP and “unleash the utility!” The company says it is selling XRP to invest in firms that could help its ecosystem grow and to fund its operations.

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