March 1, 2019

Inclusion of XRP in the listing was “an independent decision of Coinbase”: about the debate between the investor and the representative of Ripple.


Twitter debates with United Kingdom entrepreneur and investor Alistair Milne and Ripple market director Miguel Vias.

Alistair Milne wrote to Coinbase to comment on rumors that Ripple either paid or somehow influenced Coinbase to include XRP on its professional trading platform Coinbase Pro. In response to this, Collibase Communications Director Elliot Sater declined to discuss this issue publicly, proposing only a private conversation option.

After Milne uploaded a screenshot of his correspondence with Sater on Twitter, Vias weighed everything, denying any accusations.

“Listing XRP was an independent decision for Coinbase - we didn't give them anything to make it happen,” he wrote.

Further debates, also affecting Coinbase, concern the status of XRP as a secure token, according to US law.

Yesterday, Coinbase announced that it had added XRP to its other platforms besides Coinbase Pro. The company said that users can now buy, sell, convert, send, receive and store XRP on Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase app for Android and iOS.