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Market cap does not disappear because a story sounds good...

Name: Market cap does not disappear because a story sounds good...
Uploaded: 2025-12-30T08:52:28+00:00
Duration: 1 min 36 s
Channel: Ben Simpson
Description: Ben Simpson debunks viral claims that XRP could reach $170,000 per token, arguing such prices ignore basic market-cap math. He emphasizes that XRP, like…

30 Dec 2025 · 2 min

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Ben Simpson debunks viral claims that XRP could reach $170,000 per token, arguing such prices ignore basic market-cap math. He emphasizes that XRP, like other payment rails (Visa, Mastercard, Stripe), would still have a market capitalization; an extreme per-token price would imply a market cap many times larger than global money supply. Using a hypothetical 10% share of the forex market, Simpson estimates XRP’s market cap would be about $10 trillion (implying roughly $170 per token), and concludes promoters are selling hype, not math.

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This is how XRP is going to get to $170,000 per token. This just popped up on my feed again and I'm going to tell you why you need to stop listening to these people and why this is not going to happen. At a basic level, XRP still is within the realms of having a market cap. So many people in XRP believe the market cap is not a thing because it's trying to be a payment rail system. It still will be just like Visa, MasterCard, Stripe. Any of these payment settlement systems are trying to be still has a market cap. You can't just remove market cap. Every asset in the world has a market cap. The market cap at $170,000 per token is one. I don't even have to write quantrillion or quadrillion. However many zeros that is. That is ridiculous. That's nine times the entire world supply of money. Not going to happen. Number two, the payment rail system. I get it. But even If XRP takes 10% as an example of the forex market, that is only going to reach a $10 trillion market cap. $170. The idea that XRP is going to be the only payment settlement system in the world is beyond ridiculous. It's not going to happen. All right. Math versus hype. If you listen to these influences, none of this video has any correlation to math or logic. It's all hype and selling you the dream. Alright, and is it actually possible? No, it's not. People are selling you to the dream because they want the idea of XRP to be the only thing that's in the planet. That is the only cryptocurrency that will ever be used. It's not reality. All right. Stick to logic, stick to math and stop following these people.