I want to talk and give my opinion about XRP, the most controversial coin of the entire year. Everywhere they talk about XRP as a "bridge" currency for all global payments, and there are both those who defend it as if it were their wife in trouble and those who attack it as if it were the murderer of their children.
The truth is that I think this coin is not as "special" as it seems, and I don't think it will go as far as its biggest fans say. And this is one of the few times I set aside the data and signals about partnerships, utility, iso20022, and ALL those things with which they defend it, and I lean more towards my intuition, which has served me well in the past.
And it's simple to understand; RIPPLE has never committed to saying exactly that XRP will fulfill this global bridge function; they simply refer to "RIPPLE."
And even more importantly, what makes me most skeptical is the promotion and all that hope of getting rich that followers promote. It is clear that Brad Garlinghouse has gone to great lengths to make people believe that XRP will be worth millions, but what doesn't add up in all this is that I simply don't believe that the powerful of this world are so friendly as to allow people to buy so easily and even tell you that you could be a millionaire.
These powerful people would be capable of eliminating entire races and nations for their own interests, and do you really think they will share their wealth with you? I don't know, my friend... It reminds me of the saying by Rothschild, "When my shoemaker told me he was investing in stocks, I sold everything," and we are currently in a similar situation. Everyone wants to buy XRP because they think it will be like Bitcoin. For my part, I have XRP, just in case I'm wrong, but in an amount less than 10% of my portfolio.