{"id":35598,"date":"2025-09-09T09:48:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=35598"},"modified":"2025-09-09T09:48:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:48:50","slug":"apples-alleged-1-5-billion-xrp-buy-truth-or-total-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=35598","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s Alleged $1.5 Billion XRP Buy: Truth or Total Fiction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<br \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>TL;DR<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The cryptocurrency community, apart from all of its positive sides, often publishes various predictions and makes big claims, many of which turn out to be completely false.<\/li>\n<li>A popular X user now claims that there are &#8220;strong rumors&#8221; Apple will announce a big crypto purchase today &#8211; and it&#8217;s XRP.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Are the \u201crumors\u201d in the room with us right now? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rH2yYoehiA\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/rH2yYoehiA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cobb (@Cobb_XRPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cobb_XRPL\/status\/1965329266238959978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">September 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The rumor was started from an account with over 45,000 followers on X, which is why we even considered publishing this, as it sounds just a tad far-fetched. Even Cobb, one of the most vocal XRP supporters on X, mocked these rumors, comparing them to ghosts.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at this objectively. Apple has shown little to no interest in the cryptocurrency industry to date. In fact, it even had some iOS restrictions that used to ban in-app purchases involving any digital assets.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it did lift those earlier this year, and many industry participants thought it was a big bullish move. However, lifting restrictions that the competition did not have is nowhere near as significant as a move like spending billions of dollars to acquire a certain digital asset.<\/p>\n<p>But, let&#8217;s say that the company has decided to pivot from its &#8216;ignore crypto&#8217; strategy and wants to follow the example set by many smaller firms and start a digital asset reserve. Apple is not known for making bold, speculative, and unpredictable moves in the past decade or so &#8211; why would it choose XRP instead of BTC or even ETH?<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin has established itself as a trillion-dollar commodity and is even competing with Apple (losing, for now) in terms of largest global assets by market cap. It has been <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/strategy-and-metaplanet-announce-latest-bitcoin-purchases-details\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">adopted<\/a> by numerous companies, as well as a few governments. Even the US authorities are a lot more supportive during the current administration than in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, these XRP rumors appear as nothing more than just that, for the moment at least, and we will be stunned if Apple indeed announces such massive acquisition&#8230; especially as early as today.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/apples-alleged-1-5-billion-xrp-buy-truth-or-total-fiction\/\">Apple\u2019s Alleged $1.5 Billion XRP Buy: Truth or Total Fiction?<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/apples-alleged-1-5-billion-xrp-buy-truth-or-total-fiction\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TL;DR The cryptocurrency community, apart from all of its positive sides, often publishes various predictions and makes big&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crypto","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}