Buying XRP is like buying grocery store loyalty points and thinking you are investing in the grocery store. Ripple Labs will use you all as exit liquidity.
In 2023 I sold my farm and ported my profit into Bitcoin. In 2025 I will be selling my first home. My wife and I lived in this 1987 Toyota camper for 2 years and traveled all over Canada and the states. It will be missed, but it doesn't store its value quite like BTC does.
$MARA has lent out 16% of it's Bitcoin holdings to generate interest income. In this video I calculate roughly how much they can earn from this strategy and if the risk is worth it