I think that we can stop reading the article after this one sentence... Ripple holds a portion of the XRP supply, meaning the token itself is not fully decentralized like Bitcoin is.
I do not know if anyone ever thought that xrp would be the same as bitcoin or would be the next bitcoin but just by looking at the two, the differences are too noticeable. If you want to ever compare an altcoin (or god forbid a memecoin) to bitcoin, just write it out and notice how foolish you sound.
Yeah, nobody with millions of dollar in their pocket are investing into an altcoin which supply got held by the team and can dump on our face literally anytime.
Just feels like a foolish move. There's reason why the most avid institutional crypto investors always stick with bitcoin, because its decentralized, nobody is dumping on our face.
XRP as the next bitcoin is just too foolish. It's nowhere at the same level of bitcoin in term of security, decentralization, liquidity, and ecosystem.