Ripple CEO stays bullish on bitcoin but says Saylor's strategy has hurt crypto
Ripple's Brad Garlinghouse called Strategy's preferred-stock funding model "financial engineering" that distracted the market, pointing to STRC's slide to a record low as the evidence. He runs the company behind XRP, a bitcoin rival.
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