The Best of The Bad Crypto Podcast: Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple

This is a Best of Bad Crypto Podcast replay while Sir Lord Travis and Sir Lord Joel are on vacation. We harken back to Episode #067, which originally aired on January 3, 2018 with guest Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple. The price of Ripple at that time was around $0.80 to $0.90; now is it around $0.30. Right now in 2022, there is an SEC case against Ripple. We are interested in seeing the outcome of the SEC case and its impact on the cryptocurrency industry and its adoption. <br />More than three billion people are now connected online. But the payment infrastructure is still stuck in the 20th century. The people at Ripple hope to change that by creating the world’s only enterprise system for global payments. <br />And today, we welcome the CEO of Ripple.com, Brad Garlinghouse to the program. It’s a fascinating discussion about all things blockchain, as well as XRP, the cryptocurrency which has seen a rapid rise over the past month. <br />Let’s dig in with the token that holds the #4 spot in crypto market cap by getting answers directly from the top.  It’s episode #67 of The Bad Crypto Podcast. <br />FULL SHOW NOTES: <a href="http://badco.in/067" rel="noopener">http://badco.in/067</a><br />We also interviewed Ripple CTO David Schwartz in Episode #538 if you want more Ripple coverage. badco.in/538<br />TIME STAMPS: <br />00:00 - Intro<br />05:00 - The show has passed 1 million downloads (by episode #067; pretty decent!)<br />07:00 - Bad Crypto Inbox and Mail <br />07:05 - How do I keep my crypto in cold storage safe from fire, natural disaster, theft, etc.? <br />10:00 - I bought Bitcoin for Christmas presents, and now I don’t want to give it up. What do I do? <br />11:32 - FEATURED GUEST - Brad Garlinghouse of Ripple<br />13:55 - Tell us about your background and what brought you to Ripple. <br />15:10 - Travis and Brad have some things in common because they both attended the University of Kansas; Rock Chalk Jayhawk. What is your favorite Jayhawk moment? 15:50 - Ripple has a more centralized nature to it than ot