Nah, they just updated web page which said only 8,2 billion is distributed while the truth was that its 28 billion. They just know updated their web page. Before it said 72 billion held, 8 billion distributed. Since 100 billion is created its common knowledge that 28 billion is distributed if 72 billion is held. Everyone knew that. I dont know why coinmarketcap used 8,2 billion in the first place.
The most correct would be to use 100 billion since its premine and all of them are created at once.
yeah right, just a few hours after another scam outperformed their baloney, sure.
I dont think Ripple Labs is even remotely considered about its market cap or price of XRP. For over 2 years they keep telling people that XRP is not speculative currency and that its price doesnt matter. They have much more serious business to do.
IMO they were pressured by buyers to do it, since before it was 8,2bn and then Jed came out saying he will dump 9bn so noone understood how is that possible and people thought that 8,2bn is misleading number.