Back in December 2020, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin took a jab at Ripple’s legal defense. He singled out their claim that XRP shouldn’t be considered a security for “public policy reasons,” specifically because Bitcoin and Ethereum were supposedly “Chinese-controlled.” This was part of a larger back-and-forth. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse had criticized the SEC for The post Buterin’s 2020 Prediction Fails: XRP Thrives Despite SEC Battle appeared first on Coin Edition .