{"id":44556,"date":"2025-08-28T12:16:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=44556"},"modified":"2025-08-28T12:16:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:16:32","slug":"xrp-market-cap-approaching-200-billion-then-why-is-xrp-so-hated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=44556","title":{"rendered":"XRP Market Cap Approaching $200 Billion\u2014Then Why Is XRP So Hated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Despite <strong>XRP\u2019s <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/xrp\/usd\">XRP<\/a>) $180 billion market cap surpassing <strong>BlackRock<\/strong>, crypto investors remain skeptical, citing its centralized structure, lack of fundamental value, and outdated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/25\/07\/46581609\/xrp-gets-its-own-treasury-company-look-whos-building-a-20-million-xrp-reserve\">bridge currency model.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: Nate Geraci<\/strong>, president of <strong>The ETF Store<\/strong>, sparked a heated discussion on <strong>X<\/strong> by questioning why XRP remains one of the most disparaged crypto assets, prompting responses from investors and analysts who outlined several reasons for their skepticism.<\/p>\n<p>Many in the crypto community argue that XRP&#8217;s centralized nature undermines its credibility. <\/p>\n<p>One user, <strong>Hiphopsince19<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hiphopsince19__\/status\/1960609788925984991\">pointed <\/a>out that XRP operates on a permissioned blockchain where a small, approved group controls the network, requiring 80% consensus for major changes, concentrating power among a select few. <\/p>\n<p>They also noted that the public ledger begins at record 32,570, leaving early transactions unverifiable, raising transparency concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Critics also question XRP&#8217;s utility as a bridge currency.<\/p>\n<p>Another user argued that bridge currencies like XRP do not accrue value due to equal &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/08\/47383027\/xrp-market-cap-approaching-200-billion-then-why-is-xrp-so-hated\" alt=\"XRP\" market cap approaching billion why is xrp so hated>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite XRP\u2019s (CRYPTO: XRP) $180 billion market cap surpassing BlackRock, crypto investors remain skeptical, citing its centralized structure, lack of fundamental value, and outdated bridge currency model. What Happened: Nate Geraci, president of The ETF Store, sparked a heated discussion on X by questioning why XRP remains one of the most disparaged crypto assets, prompting [&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-44556","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\/44556","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=44556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}