Exactly who joined Ripple? Could you provide a link?
You do realize that Bitcoin =/= Ripple labs. Actually there's quite a lot of hate for Ripple hear because of their distribution method which is bad.
Ripple Labs has appointed former Yahoo and AOL executive Brad Garlinghouse as its new COO.
Garlinghouse, who sits on the board of Ancestry.com, became the CEO of file-sharing firm Hightail in 2012. He departed last fall following a dispute over a potential sale of the company, as reported at the time by Re/code.
In a press statement about his new role, Garlinghouse said:
"There is already incredible momentum for Ripple as a new infrastructure for global payments, and the opportunity to define the actual framework for the Internet of Value is an order of magnitude bigger than anything else underway in payments today."
The move comes weeks after Ripple Labs tapped former US State Department official Anja Manuel to work as an advisor. Former National Economic Council director Gene Sperling joined the companys board of directors in January.
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