Ripple CTO hits back at Vitalik Buterin for his XRP dig

David Schwartz compared crypto miners in the Ethereum and Bitcoin ecosystems to shareholders in eBay, which he says also manufactures BTC securities and ETH.

In a discussion that began around two crypto exchanges in Ontario's recent C$30,000 limit on altcoin purchases - which excluded Ether (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) - Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin took a dig at XRP, which Ripple's CTO David Schwartz didn't take kindly.

Buterin, in a response to a tweet, praised the Ethereum community's pushback against regulations that favor ETH over other cryptocurrencies. David Hoffman, founder of decentralized media and education platform Bankless, responded to Buterin and said he wouldn't mind if they restricted XRP.

XRP already lost its right to protection when it tried to throw us under the bus as imo" controlled by China ":https://t. co/t6cbMtjsEV

Buterin joined in the bashing of XRP, saying, "They already lost their right to protection when they tried to throw us under the bus as 'controlled by China'." Buterin's response created a storm among XRP followers on Twitter, and the debate was later joined by Schwartz himself.

Buterin was referring to defending Ripple in its ongoing legal battle with the United States...