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Ripple CEO: Bitcoin ‘Is the Napster of Digital Assets’

Adam James by Adam James
5 years ago
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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse recently claimed that cryptocurrencies are solving real-world banking and remittance problems — with future generations set to build and improve on the foundation laid by blockchain technology. In doing so, he also stated that Bitcoin “is the Napster of digital assets.”


Inapt Comparisons

Though the Ripple CEO says that comparisons between his cryptocurrency and Bitcoin are ultimately compliments, he also took the chance to compare the dominant cryptocurrency to peer-to-peer file-sharing internet service Napster — which was revolutionary for its time but failed to maintain any sort of lasting relevance.

Speaking to Bloomberg Asia ahead of his participation in the Millennium 2020 conference in Singapore, Garlinghouse stated:

Some may look back at Bitcoin and say that it is the Napster of digital assets. What I mean by that is that Napster was the first to digitize music and demonstrate that you can do a lot of cool things with that. But ultimately they were circumventing trademark laws, they were circumventing royalty payments and then government stepped in and Napster wasn’t successful. But Spotify, iTunes, and Pandora were successful.

I think what you will find is that maybe the next generation of digital assets will end up solving some of the problems that Bitcoin set out to solve.

This statement may, of course, be easily interpreted as a means of promoting Ripple — a far-from-decentralized cryptocurrency which aims to help traditional financial institutions settle cross-border and domestic payments — while, at the same time, putting down its primary competitor.

Ripple

In many ways, Bitcoin is indeed similar to Napster, in that it aims to undermine traditional, regulated infrastructures. However, assumptions that Bitcoin will go the way of the now-irrelevant file-sharing service hold little ground. One could just as easily compare Bitcoin to the combustion engine or make unflattering remarks about Ripple, such as:

"Bitcoin is the Napster of digital assets."

–@bgarlinghouse

"Ripple is the Enron of digital assets."

– @_Kevin_Pham

— Kevin Pham (@_Kevin_Pham) March 13, 2018

Naturally, Garlinghouse’s remarks are largely intended to encourage Ripple investment against the cryptocurrency market’s dominator. In regards to the company’s in-house suite of technology solutions, he explained:

If you were going to send $10,000 to California today [from Singapore], the fastest way for us to do it is to drive to the airport and fly it there. That’s a crazy to think about it in the age of the internet. When we think about the customers that have come on board, it’s because we’re solving that real problem. We’re changing the nature of a payment taking days to settle to California to seconds.

We’re still just getting started, but we’re on mile one in a marathon but we’ve crossed that starting line. This is real activity.

Garlinghouse neglects to mention that other cryptocurrencies allow near-instantaneous financial transactions, but without the help of banks.

What do you think about Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse’s comparing of Bitcoin to Napster? Let us know in the comments below!


Images courtesy of Bitcoinist archives and Twitter/@_Kevin_Pham.

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Adam James lives in Budapest and is the Managing Editor of Bitcoinist.com. He digs Gibson guitars that sound like Tyrannosauruses, Romantic & Victorian poetry, Franco-era Spanish films, LPs, Chelsea FC, Bob Dylan, Pilot G2 10s, black coffee, video games, and cryptocurrency.

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