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RIPPLE .

Hey - remember back when Ripple's market cap was greater than Bitcoin's? Yeah - those were the days.

I read a CoinDesk story about ripple today and there was a footnote saying the company that owns CoinDesk is an investor in the company that runs ripple. That's news to me. I have read loads of CoinDesk stories about ripple and I always thought they were unbiased. If I'd known CoinDesk was a ripple investor I wouldn't have taken those stories at face value.

CoinDesk was recently acquired by another company.

Barry Silbert his company (DCG)

Barry is also one of the most prolific angel investors in the bitcoin space via his personal investment vehicle, Bitcoin Opportunity Corp., with investments in over 40 bitcoin-related companies, including BitGo, BitPay, BitPagos, BitPesa, Chain, Circle, Coinbase, Gyft, Kraken, Ripple Labs, TradeBlock, Unocoin and Xapo.

I just dont understand where does this silbert come from..
Out of the blue, that mofo basically owns ~every major bitcoin company.

http://dcg.co/network/

Being an investor does not necessarily tell us the extent to which the investor is an owner (or the terms of the investment agreement). In other words, there can be a lot of variation in the level of ownership or even the degree to which there is any management control or permanence in the relationship.