Highly followed Bitcoin maxi “Bitcoin Dad” suggests that the XRP price will go to zero by 2035.
There is hardly any love lost between XRP holders and core Bitcoin proponents, also known as maximalists or maxis, and this does not look likely to change anytime soon.
In the latest instance, one prominent market pundit has stoked the flames of the divide with price predictions for a decade from now.
10M XRP for a Ford Focus (2014) in 2035
Highly followed Bitcoin maxi “Bitcoin Dad” has implied that XRP will go to zero by 2035.
In an X post on Wednesday, February 5, the pundit asserted that 10 million XRP will be required to purchase a 2014 Ford Focus. Essentially, now only available in the used market, the average price for a 2014 Ford Focus is about $8,000, placing XRP’s price at about $0.0008. Such a price would mark a 99.9% drop from XRP’s current value of $2.4.
Unsurprisingly, the pundit shared a more optimistic view about Bitcoin, though the target price seems to range widely.
In one instance, he suggests that 6.15 BTC will be able to purchase an M1 Abrams Tank valued recently at around $19 million, placing the price for 1 BTC at about $3 million.
In another instance, he claims 100 BTC will be able to buy a U.S. nuclear submarine. The basic nuclear attack submarine is believed to cost between $2 billion and $5 billion. At just $2 billion, the price of 1 BTC will be $20 million in 2035, per Bitcoin Dad’s predictions.
The recent XRP price jab comes at a time when the asset has increasingly taken the spotlight in the recent market rally, at one point surging over 560% from the lows to trade near all-time highs of $3.4.
At the same time, several analysts have expressed confidence that the asset’s price could reach above the $10 price point in the current cycle, citing its historical performance.
Bitcoin maxis, meanwhile, continue to raise concerns about holding the asset as Ripple, a blockchain payments firm whose founders also developed the XRP Ledger, controls over 40% of the circulating supply, which it claims to be used to provide liquidity for its payments service.
Objections to this model by Bitcoin maxis have increased amid Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse’s efforts to convince the Donald Trump administration to include the asset in a potential crypto reserve.
