11 months ago
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The crypto community discusses whether Twitter should accept BTC or XRP
The crypto community gets into a heated debate over which cryptocurrency Twitter should accept as payment through its payment app. According to cryptocurrency investor @APompliano, Bitcoin (BTC) is the only form of payment that can scale up instantaneous, international microtransactions. The native Bitcoin blockchain, according to many Twitter users who disputed this assertion, could only handle seven transactions per second (TPS). Blockchain attorney John E. Deaton criticized Apompiano’s assertion as demonstrably incorrect and pointed out that Twitter had been accepting micropayments with Ripple’s native token (XRP) for years prior to Bitcoin. Deaton stated that he held more Bitcoin tokens than
