No sooner had Musk finalized the deal to purchase Twitter than the controversy over which cryptocurrency must be used on the social community heated up. So one other spherical of discussions started when, in response to Anthony Pompliano’s declare that Bitcoin is Twitter’s greatest potential forex, crypto lawyer John Deaton was fast to disagree and reminded customers that there was an XRP Tip Bot on the community a number of years in the past.
I am unsure why individuals say issues which are demonstrably not true. And earlier than the haters name me an #XRP Maxi, I’ve a bigger funding in #Bitcoin than #XRP. I do not know why individuals ignore the truth that #XRP was getting used as a micropayment ON TWITTER a number of years earlier than #BTC https://t.co/vWELrQFbNR
— John E Deaton (220K Followers Beware Imposters) (@JohnEDeaton1) November 5, 2022
That is the place the writer of that innovation, Wietse Wind, who’s now in all probability the main developer on XRPL, entered the dialogue. Wind shared his comparable growth for Reddit 5 years in the past, the place XRP was for use for donations. As well as, the developer shared one other bot that enables XRP to be tweeted utilizing one other Wind product, Xumm Pockets.
Will neighborhood get XRP Tip Bot 2.0?
In line with the bot’s statistics, 20,531 donations totaling 154,643 XRP have been despatched by way of it over its lifetime. The unique XRP Tip Bot was banned from Twitter in 2020 as a consequence of a breach of service guidelines. The XRP neighborhood then linked the bot’s blocking to former Twitter head Jack Dorsey, who’s a identified Bitcoin maximalist.
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XRP fanatics have already begun contacting Twitter’s new proprietor, Elon Musk, asking him to unblock the bot, whereas Musk himself has remained silent on the corporate’s plans, particularly within the crypto space.
