Cardano Founder Hoskinson Slams XRP Community For Spreading Conspiracy Theories
Charles Hoskinson, co-founder of Ethereum (ETH) and co-founder of Cardano (ADA), stated that certain members of the XRP community are "muddying the waters" with their theories and "making it more difficult for the industry as a whole to support Ripple."
Hoskinson made the comments during an interview with YouTuber BitBoy Crypto this past weekend and in regard to the long-lasting war between the US payments company Ripple and the US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC).
The comment followed an argument, so to say, between the XRP community and Hoskinson, during which the former came after the latter due to Hoskinson's earlier statements - which he claimed were taken out of context.
In a 'Thinking Crypto' episode earlier this month, Hoskinson said that "there are some people in the XRP community that are trying to invent this grand conspiracy that there was blatant corruption between the insiders at the SEC and Ethereum." Hoskinson's view was that this was not the issue, but the lack of regulation was.
How does Ethereum come into all of this? Ripple just recently finally got the documents they were after for a long time and which the SEC did not want to give up: the Hinman documents. William Hinman was the SEC Director of Corporation Finance who is said to have met Ethereum officials and who also declared that ETH and bitcoin (BTC) are not securities.
Back to this latest interview, Hoskinson argued that the primary objective for the XRP community is for Ripple to win, stating that,
"My comments-- and I said the grand conspiracy is not the issue. Whether it's true or not is not the issue. [...] The issue here is that all of this attack, the personal attacks, the viciousness of it, on particular members of a particular
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