Wanted to say thanks to everyone who participated in the poll we did over the weekend. It seems the results are pretty clear.
This is actually well in line with what I was expecting. I’ve been saying for several weeks now that XRP is winning at social media. Within moments of posting the poll, a slew of responses came in from XRP supporters urging the community to vote using the hashtags #XRPtheStandard and #XRPcommunity.
By the time the poll had reached 6,000 votes, it was actually showing 70% in favor of XRP, a peak that was steadily clawed back until the poll closed.
The comments featured a strong showing of all the top crypto projects, especially Cardano, EOS, Litecoin, Dash and a bunch of other projects, some of which I’d never heard of. What I found most interesting were the communities that chose not to participate.
There were literally zero reposts from the Ethereum community even though they do have a large dev community on Twitter and very little excitement from Bitcoin enthusiasts who can be quite vocal when they want. In fact, the opposite, several responses indicated that they weren’t even willing to participate in a poll that considers XRP as a cryptocurrency.
As with any poll, it seems the results reflect the medium, and Twitter polls probably shouldn’t be taken as gospel. However, it’s nice to see such an active community surrounding Ripple. Let’s wait for the decisions of the SEC and hope that eventually, the large financial institutions may consider adopting it as a payment method.
Traditional Markets
Welcome to Cyber Monday. The much more humane version of Black Friday where participants, rather than getting trampled in stores, are free to get frustrated in the comfort of their own homes.
Markets are green today across the board with high-risk assets performing the best. The tech-heavy Nasdaq is leading the stock markets higher and even crypto is seeing a nice bounce off the weekend lows.
