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Ripley: SEC's Crypto Approach Is Flawed Compared to Canada and Europe
“Their entire approach is off. Right. So it's just completely off. And so the right approach is what we see everywhere, what we see in Canada and in Europe and in UK where parliament or legislatures work, work to put in place proper laws.”
Ripley Predicts the SEC Will Lose Its Crypto Enforcement Lawsuits
“They won't be successful, right? They've lost an XRP. They've lost the grayscale thing. They just kind of continue to not see success with these with these actions. So I don't think they, you know, they won't be successful.”
Ripley Predicts Kraken and the Crypto Industry Will 10x in Five Years
“I think we will be at a meaningfully different place as an industry in order of magnitude bigger. I think Kraken will likely be more than an order of magnitude bigger in that timeframe.”
Ripley Claims Most 2024 US Presidential Candidates Are Pro-Crypto
“The majority of the candidates out there are you know, pro Bitcoin, pro cryptocurrency.”
Ripley Predicts the US Will Elect a Pro-Crypto President Soon
“Over the coming set of elections, we will have a pro-Bitcoin, pro-cryptocurrency president, because crypto and Bitcoin are naturally going to grow.”
Ripley: Crypto Exchanges Are Not Commoditizing Due to Foundational Complexity
“I think it's going in the opposite direction. It's extraordinarily difficult to get all the foundations right, security, red compliance, all these different pieces. So much so that we've seen a lot of companies come, not just go by the wayside, but completely …”
Ripley: Bitcoin Volatility Trends Upward Long-Term Unlike Depreciating Fiat
“First I'll point out that it's a lot of volatility up and to the right across the, you know, the history of the, you know, of Bitcoin. And it, it's not a lot of volatility and down and to the right as you know, most fiat currencies perform.”
Ripley Predicts Service Providers Will Hide Crypto Complexity From Consumers
“There will effectively be You know, set of service providers or companies that obfuscate away. Frankly, a lot of the complexity that still exists there with crypto and in Bitcoin, we talk about, you know, having to, these clunky long addresses that are necessa…”
Ripley: Media Articles Predicting Crypto's Demise Peak During Bull Markets
“And the actual articles, when these articles come out, you actually see more of them come out in, ah, the kind of quote unquote bull market periods.”
Ripley Admits Kraken's Rapid Regulatory Pivots Caused Internal Flail
“One of the things that we've had to do a lot this year is you know, pivot the company to, you know, focus on in new and different areas as things of all, you know, regulatory environments and so forth. We did a lot of that maybe reasonably quickly, which was a…”
Ripley: Kraken Reached Multi-Billion Valuation With Minimal Marketing
“We made it to become an enormous, you know, multi-billion dollar company without frankly doing much marketing at all, which is kind of amazing in and of itself.”
Ripley Discloses Payroll and Remittance Firms Use Kraken for Liquidity
“We have, you know, payroll and remittance companies that are you know, clients for Kraken that, you know, run this business in, they simply use you know, Kraken for back-end liquidity, you know, to convert from, you know, fiat to crypto, and they use the crypt…”