{"id":477145,"date":"2025-08-18T03:30:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T03:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=749290"},"modified":"2025-08-18T03:30:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T03:30:50","slug":"former-monero-developers-viral-xrp-post-ignites-crypto-culture-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/former-monero-developers-viral-xrp-post-ignites-crypto-culture-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Monero Developer\u2019s Viral XRP Post Ignites Crypto Culture War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/xrcccee-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Former Monero Developer&#039;s Viral XRP Post Ignites Crypto Culture War\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>A former Monero lead developer sparked controversy after revealing that a close friend\u2014previously skeptical of crypto\u2014wanted to buy XRP, believing banks would be obsolete within two years. Igniting the XRP Debate: A Skeptic\u2019s Inquiry The claim by Riccardo Spagni, former lead developer for Monero, that a close friend and longtime crypto skeptic had expressed interest [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Monero lead developer sparked controversy after revealing that a close friend\u2014previously skeptical of crypto\u2014wanted to buy XRP, believing banks would be obsolete within two years. Igniting the XRP Debate: A Skeptic\u2019s Inquiry The claim by Riccardo Spagni, former lead developer for Monero, that a close friend and longtime crypto skeptic had expressed interest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":477146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-477145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}