THELOGICALINDIAN - Michael Barr is accepted to become the abutting Head of Comptroller of the Currency
According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, President Joe Biden is set to appoint Michael Barr as the arch of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).
Biden Administration May Tap Ex-Ripple Advisor for OCC
Barr served as the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions beneath President Barack Obama. He abutting Ripple as an adviser on Jul. 19, 2015. He is no best listed as an advisor, however.
The official accommodation has yet to be announced, and The Wall Street Journal did not accept any comments from the White House, the Treasury Department, or Barr himself.
Previously, Coinbase’s above arch acknowledged officer, Brian Brooks, was the arch of OCC, but he stepped bottomward on Jan. 14, 2020.
Biden is additionally accepted to name ex-CFTC Gary Gensler as the new Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Gensler was a assistant at MIT Sloan, area he accomplished blockchain technology. He is additionally a chief adviser to the MIT Digital Currency Initiative.
Ripple's XRP looks abreast for a declivity as affairs burden mounts, best conspicuously from Ripple's above CTO.
One of Ripple’s co-founders has resumed the auction of his XRP holdings, putting cogent bottomward burden on the afflicted token.
Dumping Millions of Tokens
Ripple’s architect and above CTO Jed McCaleb holds added than 9 billion XRP, which he acquired as allotment of the advantage plan for his role as one of the project’s capital contributors.
Following his abandonment from Ripple in 2013, McCaleb announced that he had started liquidating his coins.
“I accept accustomed abroad and donated some of my 9 billion XRP to charities such as MIRI, Literacy Bridge, Give Directly, Mission Bit, and others. [Now,] I plan to alpha affairs all of my actual XRP alpha in two weeks. Because I accept immense account for the association associates and appetite to be transparent, I’m about announcement this afore I start.”
Since then, Whale Alert has been able to identify over 100,000 affairs that arise to be McCaleb. The transaction tracking account provider begin that the accepted CTO at Stellar awash over 1.20 billion XRP amid 2014 and aboriginal 2020.
At an boilerplate bulk of $0.13, this bulk of tokens is agnate to $157 million.
McCaleb seems to accept paused his XRP sales appropriate afterwards the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a chic action adjoin Ripple. However, the “tacostand” wallet associated with him beatific almost 120 actor XRP tokens, account $36 million, to Bitstamp in the accomplished four days.
The abrupt fasten in bottomward burden could add ammunition to the fear, uncertainty, and agnosticism surrounding this altcoin.
As some of the best arresting cryptocurrency exchanges in the industry have suspended XRP trading activity, the token’s clamminess is rapidly declining.
Now, it has a bigger adventitious to acknowledge fast to ascent advertise orders.
XRP on Cusp of Lower Lows
A added access in accumulation could see XRP breach out in a bottomward administration from a balanced triangle area it has been independent over the accomplished two weeks. The ambit of the abstruse pattern’s widest ambit estimates a abeyant ambition of about 33%.
If XRP moves accomplished the triangle’s lower trendline and closes beneath the $0.28 abutment level, it could accomplish agitation amid investors, sending the coin’s bazaar amount to $0.19 or lower.
It is account acquainted that a 4-hour candlestick abutting aloft $0.31 may accept the backbone to invalidate the bleak outlook.
Under such circumstances, the balanced triangle will be advised a changeabout arrangement that leads to an advance to $0.40 for XRP.
Disclosure: At the time of writing, this columnist endemic Bitcoin and Ethereum.
