To avoid legal action, the creators dropped “West” from the name, changed the logo to a “half man, half fish hybrid” that resembles West — a biting reference to a “South Park” episode that pokes fun at West’s massive ego — and released Coinye as planned.
Bitcoin notches new all-time high after inflation data shows prices are surging at the fastest rate in 30 years

The difference is that stellar wants to target the unbanked, whereas Ripple works mostly with global banks to transfer money among clients at very low cost. Ripple holds all the cards in this corner of the crypto market.
Another institutional hit for bitcoin–which probably had the most sustained effect–was the SEC’s refusal to approve a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). This would be a path for more mainstream people in finance to dabble with blockchain; it would allow investors to dip their toes in bitcoin without owning the actual asset. Not only that, but it would make bitcoin available on the most prominent financial markets. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), however, has yet to allow such a fund to exist–mostly because it is unable to monitor crypto-transactions in order to avoid market manipulation.