David Schwartz, the CTO of Ripple in his latest tweets has drawn parallels between his firm and Apple's iPhones. The debate was on whether controlling nodes is among the reasons that XRP has still maintained its third position despite not seeing any price uptick throughout 2020. In the conversation, it was argued that Ripple's control over XRP supply and node operations had been done so that the value of XRP only helps Ripple.
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