{"id":72303,"date":"2026-02-13T14:16:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=72303"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:16:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:16:32","slug":"xrp-co-creator-calls-bitcoin-a-technological-dead-end-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=72303","title":{"rendered":"XRP Co-Creator Calls Bitcoin A &#8216;Technological Dead End&#8217;\u2014Here&#8217;s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Ripple<\/strong> CTO Emeritus <strong>David Schwartz<\/strong> called <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) a \u201ctechnological dead end\u201d comparable to the dollar as <strong>XRP<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"XRP\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/XRP-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/xrp\/usd\">XRP<\/a>) is consolidating after a V-shaped recovery from $1.15 lows.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The \u2018Dead End\u2019 Argument<\/h3>\n<p>Schwartz on Thursday on X <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JoelKatz\/status\/2021756326385471869\">responded<\/a> to a user asking if he\u2019d considered working on Bitcoin again after co-creating the XRP Ledger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot really. I think Bitcoin is largely a technological dead end for the same reason the dollar is,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz argued Bitcoin\u2019s success doesn\u2019t depend on blockchain innovation. \u201cThe technology just doesn\u2019t seem to matter all that much to its success, at least not at the blockchain layer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He explained the core function investors care about isn\u2019t new features but the simple expectation that Bitcoin remains usable and transferable in the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor 99% of what makes Bitcoin interesting, all the blockchain needs &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/02\/50609128\/xrp-co-creator-calls-bitcoin-a-technological-dead-end-heres-why?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"XRP\" co-creator calls bitcoin a dead end why>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz called Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) a \u201ctechnological dead end\u201d comparable to the dollar as XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) is consolidating after a V-shaped recovery from $1.15 lows. The \u2018Dead End\u2019 Argument Schwartz on Thursday on X responded to a user asking if he\u2019d considered working on Bitcoin again after co-creating the XRP [&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-72303","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\/72303","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=72303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}