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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse Explains Why XRP Beats Bitcoin for Payments

Coinpedia·July 16, 2026·1 min read
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse Explains Why XRP Beats Bitcoin for Payments

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse explained why XRP beats Bitcoin for payments at an event. He compared modern payment networks to early internet days, saying apps like Venmo are like old closed networks such as AOL. Garlinghouse argued that today's payment apps weren't built to communicate with each other.

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