{"id":14766,"date":"2025-02-24T20:01:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T20:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=14766"},"modified":"2025-02-24T20:01:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T20:01:36","slug":"did-you-know-that-ashton-kutcher-held-4-million-in-xrp-in-2018-heres-what-he-did-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=14766","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know That Ashton Kutcher Held $4 Million In XRP In 2018? Here&#8217;s What He Did With It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Already in 2018, <strong>XRP<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/xrp\/usd\">XRP<\/a>) had a prominent advocate: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/24\/12\/42470335\/if-you-invested-1000-in-xrp-token-when-ashton-kutcher-surprised-ellen-degeneres-with-4m-charity-donation-heres-how-much-youd-have-today\">actor <strong>Ashton Kutcher<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>In 2018, Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher introduced XRP to mainstream audiences by donating $4 million worth of XRP through the XRP payment app to The Ellen DeGeneres Wildlife Fund live on her talk show.<\/p>\n<p>The donation, made on Ripple&#8217;s behalf, showcased XRP&#8217;s ability to facilitate instant cross-border payments years before crypto gained mainstream adoption.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, XRP has gained 350.9% compared to <strong>Bitcoin&#8217;s<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) gains of 83.4% and <strong>Ethereum&#8217;s <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>) losses of -11%.<\/p>\n<p>With cryptocurrencies gaining traction &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/02\/43923219\/did-you-know-that-ashton-kutcher-held-4-million-in-xrp-in-2018-heres-what-he-did-with-it\" alt=\"Did\" you know that ashton kutcher held million in xrp here what he did with it>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Already in 2018, XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) had a prominent advocate: actor Ashton Kutcher. What Happened: In 2018, Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher introduced XRP to mainstream audiences by donating $4 million worth of XRP through the XRP payment app to The Ellen DeGeneres Wildlife Fund live on her talk show. The donation, made on Ripple&#8217;s behalf, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-14766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}