{"id":57846,"date":"2025-11-11T13:01:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=57846"},"modified":"2025-11-11T13:01:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:01:47","slug":"dave-weisberger-torches-xrp-fantasy-1000-targets-are-delusional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=57846","title":{"rendered":"Dave Weisberger Torches XRP Fantasy: \u2018$1,000 Targets Are Delusional\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dave Weisberger, former chairman and co-founder of CoinRoutes and now president of BetterTrade.digital, delivered a pointed critique of popular XRP price targets while laying out a structurally bullish\u2014yet methodical\u2014thesis for Bitcoin\u2019s long-term value. In a November 10 video, Weisberger argued that Bitcoin\u2019s investment case rests on verifiable scarcity and a distributed network with unmatched uptime, whereas XRP\u2019s path to durable upside must be underwritten by tangible network revenues that accrue to the token.<\/p>\n

Weisberger framed investor behavior in first principles: people buy assets because they expect them to rise and because they have a thesis for why they should. For Bitcoin, he said, that thesis is the re-emergence of \u201csound money\u201d in a digital age. He positioned Bitcoin as a successor to gold, which he argues lost its monetary anchor after 1913 and definitively in 1971.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea of gold, where you have to trust the people who have what they say they have [\u2026] there\u2019s a lot of trust baked in the system,\u201d he said. By contrast, \u201cthe idea of Bitcoin, which is maintained by a network of node operators that is incredibly large, global and distributed [\u2026] it is provably scarce. It is programmatically scarce at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Weisberger also emphasized Bitcoin\u2019s open participation model, drawing a line between permissionless validation and the industrial realities of block production. \u201cThere\u2019s no barriers to entry [\u2026] If you want to run a node, you can,\u201d he said, while noting economies of scale for miners. That, he claimed, differentiates Bitcoin from other crypto assets.<\/p>\n

Why $1,000 XRP Price Targets Are \u2018Delusional\u2019<\/h2>\n

Turning to XRP, he asserted that non-Bitcoin tokens must answer an equity-like question: how does the network generate revenue, and how does value flow back to token holders? \u201cYour path to value has to be the same as with an equity,\u201d he said. The mechanism could be direct profit sharing, fee-driven burns, or required token usage, but \u201cthere has to be a reason.\u201d<\/p>\n

He warned that in systems offering commoditized, switchable utility, large financial institutions can migrate if costs rise, naturally capping fee levels and, by extension, token value. That switching dynamic, he suggested, limits the ceiling for XRP even under generous adoption scenarios.<\/p>\n

Weisberger was explicit that he is not anti-XRP. He disclosed he holds a position, calling the asset \u201cpotentially a good investment\u201d with scope to \u201cappreciate a couple of times from here.\u201d But he rejected extreme price claims as mathematically incoherent.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat gets me completely crazy are these idiots who talk about this in terms of $10,000 prices or $1,000 prices<\/a>,\u201d he said, contrasting XRP\u2019s supply with Bitcoin\u2019s. \u201cThere are quite literally 5,000 times more XRP tokens than Bitcoin [\u2026] if you think it flips Bitcoin, you\u2019re saying $21.\u201d On four-figure targets: \u201c$1,000 are [\u2026] on its face absurd and clearly innumerate or can\u2019t do math.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also reiterated a separation he says Ripple itself drew in the early years: \u201cRipple and XRP are not the same thing. One is a token. One represents an operational business.\u201d While praising Ripple\u2019s push into prime brokerage<\/a>\u2014\u201ca brilliant move,\u201d in his words\u2014he framed the strategic aim as balance-sheet strength and financing income, not necessarily perpetual token price appreciation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey need the XRP on their balance sheet to be robust because that\u2019s what gives them their advantage,\u201d he said, describing prime brokerage as a leverage-provision business augmented by software. He claimed Ripple has assembled components\u2014\u201cThey bought Hidden Road<\/a>. They bought Custodians. They bought other components.\u201d\u2014to build \u201cwhat could be a very interesting business,\u201d drawing an analogy to profit centers at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.<\/p>\n

For XRP\u2019s market price, however, he argued operational priorities are pragmatic: \u201cXRP, the ledger, they need it to not go down. They don\u2019t need it to go up, although they would like it to go up.\u201d<\/p>\n

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My take on XRP vis a vis Bitcoin\u2026 Rather than focus on one clip, this goes through the logic. pic.twitter.com\/xK27a3djs9<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Dave W (@daveweisberger1) November 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Price spikes, he added, can even be counterproductive for network economics. \u201cIf the price of XRP goes up too much, they\u2019re, just like everybody else, going to be forced a little bit to switch [\u2026] they\u2019re not going to subsidize it for very long.\u201d In his view, the sustainable equilibrium is one where the ledger operates cost-effectively and any token appreciation is justified by usage-driven cash flows, not hype.<\/p>\n

At press time, XRP traded at $2.44.<\/p>\n

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Dave Weisberger, former chairman and co-founder of CoinRoutes and now president of BetterTrade.digital, delivered a pointed critique of popular XRP price targets while laying out a structurally bullish\u2014yet methodical\u2014thesis for Bitcoin\u2019s long-term value. In a November 10 video, Weisberger argued that Bitcoin\u2019s investment case rests on verifiable scarcity and a distributed network with unmatched uptime, […]<\/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-57846","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\/57846","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=57846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}