Giving additional credence to XRP Military, Byrne provides that the SEC was focused by a “enormous advertising and marketing marketing campaign from Ethereum promoters, and folks with giant portions of Ethereum” in order that the SEC would “go away it alone within the title of know-how.” However there’s but extra nuance. Byrne provides that there are different causes the SEC may have chosen to prosecute Ripple and never Ethereum, together with that Ripple continues to promote XRP on secondary markets. “In the event you promote tokens available in the market on January 1, and also you’re not supposed to do this, bang, that’s a violation,” says Byrne. “In the event you do it once more on March 10, bang, that’s one other violation.” Due to these repeat offenses, says Byrne, “I believe it was simpler to pin the tail on Ripple.”