Ripple co -founder eliminated his assets in XRP

July 17, co -founder and former Ripple Technical Director Jed McCeleb liquidated 1.1 million XRP, allegedly completing the sale of 9 billion tokens belonging to him.

At the time of writing in the Tacostand wallet, the balance is 46.7 XRP in the Tacostand wallet.

“There are 40 XRP left, now you can have more coins than Jed,” the authors of the JedTacostand Twitter channel wrote with irony.

According to McCaleb, 9 billion XRP represented its share in Ripple. He began the sale of assets in 2014 by parts by agreement with the company. A certain number of tokens co-founder of the company donated charitable organizations.

On July 15, the CTC News humorous publication has allegedly published an interview with McCaleb, according to which he decided to keep the last 5 million XRP “just in case”.

“If you think about it, it would be very stupid to sell all this. I mean that if it really costs $ 589 for token? I could be rich!” – attributed to him a quote in which some believed.

The next day, McCaleb eliminated 4.2 million XRP.

The Whale Alert service was able to track the sale of 5.7 billion XRP for ~ $ https://gagarin.news/ua/ 3.1 billion for eight years (at an average price of $ 0.55).

At the time of writing, the token is traded near the $ 0.36 mark. Over the past day, the asset has risen in price by 2.4%, in a week the course increased by 11.7% (Coingecko).

Recall that after the submission of the securities and US Exchange Commission in December 2020, McCaleb suspended XRP sales for almost a month.

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