And, let me guess, he thinks that a centralized cryptocurrency, namely Ripple, would be able to combat this non-problem?
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China having >60% of the current hash rate of the world does not necessarily mean that they want to alter any transactions that they want. The blockchain being transparent helps in getting things known to the world before it gets buried, but even if that happens, people will still know, hence altering and reversing transactions not really worth it on the side of the Chinese.
Doing this would result to bitcoin losing its value in an unprecedented scale seeing the vulnerability unfold before our very eyes.
I speculate that his argument will be
they are both centralized so it might be better to choose the coin controlled by an entity friendly to America hehehe.
In any case, similar to Ethereums's unverifiable supply, Ripple has its own problem. The transactions cannot be traced back to the very beginning.
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