Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse renewed his pitch for XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) at the XRP Las Vegas conference, coinciding with the launch of an XRP trading pair on a Moscow exchange.
Speed, Cost, And Scalability Make XRP Different
Garlinghouse said the earliest inventors of XRP Ledger had been contributors to the core of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and saw an opportunity to build something specialized to solve a payments problem.
“What makes XRP so unique is its speed, settling transactions in three to five seconds, its cost, extremely low cost, fractions of a penny per transaction, and its scalability, now having completed over four billion transactions,” Garlinghouse said.
He added the XRP community, which he calls the “XRP family” and sometimes the “XRP army,” combined with the blockchain’s longevity creates …