Ripple co-founder and executive chairman Chris Larsen has made a full recovery from COVID-19

By Selena On Apr 3, 2020

Chris Larsen, co-founder, and CEO of Ripple, has reported his full recovery from COVID-19. In a tweet on April 2, he implored others that have fully recovered to donate blood to save the world from this global pandemic. He also showed his gratitude to the health workers that are endangering their lives to save others.

Thank you to everyone on the frontlines keeping us safe – am truly grateful to report that I’ve made a full recovery from #COVID19. If you’ve recovered from the virus, please consider donating your blood to help with antibody transplants: https://t.co/icm06Et5fr pic.twitter.com/331Mjv43Z6

— Chris Larsen (@chrislarsensf) April 2, 2020

Ripple co-founder has made a full recovery from COVID-19

Chris Larsen made this known via his official Twitter handle a couple of hours ago. A picture of him donating blood to help the antibody transfer for the treatment of others was captioned in the tweet. Larsen had not publicly shared the fact that he had been diagnosed with COVID-19. The majority of the crypto-community only discovered the truth when he posted his tweet, expanded by a picture of himself wearing a facemask giving a thumbs-up gesture.

Many cryptocurrency enthusiasts, especially XRP community members, such as Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, CTO at Ripple David Schwartz, Tron founder Justin Sun, and others, have shown their enthusiasm. Their happiness in full recovery since he shared the good news on Twitter.

Brad Garlinghouse said:

Nothing can keep @chrislarsensf down for long ? Thankful to call you a friend and colleague (and love the Ripple shirt!) https://t.co/1RyFDNJkHj

— Brad Garlinghouse (@bgarlinghouse) April 2, 2020

Novel coronavirus started causing havoc in Wuhan China, where it was first discovered. Many countries of the world were caught unprepared, which contributed to the expansion of the highly contagious and pathogenic virus. The global pandemic has also initiated a financial crisis, especially in the countries that are grossly affected, such as the United States, China, Italy, Spain, and others. And it has also contributed to the increase in the number of unemployed across the world.

At press time, the total number of confirmed cases across the world has risen to 1,016,128, while 211,615 COVID-19 patients have fully recovered. The total number of deaths now stands at 53,069.

The United States now has the highest number of cases, while Italy has the highest number of deaths. No one knows how long the pandemic would last, howbeit, the governments of the world are trying their best to curtail the spread, to get economy back on track.

Nearly 85 million XRP has been moved in the last 24 hours

Over the past twenty-four hours, XRPL Monitor has detected approximately 85 mln XRP transferred by several entities over the past twenty-four hours. Ripple and the Mexican Bitso exchange transacted over half of this amount (48.6 mln XRP). The other half was moved by South Korean exchanges Coinone and Bithumb.

Transaction Type: Payment
Amount: 14,500,000 XRP
Fee: 10 drops (0.00001 XRP)
Sender: bithumb
Sender Balance: 243,386,801.619722
Receiver: rMa2gKSPbDHanFefkaFabY9Ytk1U4a6hpZ
Receiver Balance: 102,308,015.995758
Link: https://t.co/k2zzKwDZ3T

— XRPL Monitor (@XRPL_Monitor) April 3, 2020

Transaction Type: Payment
Amount: 20,960,659.22723 XRP
Fee: 10 drops (0.00001 XRP)
Sender: coinone
Sender Balance: 31,421,279.512478
Receiver: rhuCPEoLFYbpbwyhXioSumPKrnfCi3AXJZ
Receiver Balance: 73,316,318.862472
Link: https://t.co/TZWUFAAbWV

— XRPL Monitor (@XRPL_Monitor) April 2, 2020

Transaction Type: Payment
Amount: 19,114,712.05 XRP
Fee: 100 drops (0.0001 XRP)
Sender: Ripple
Sender Balance: 2,711,322.303798
Receiver: rBk45vdUpD7fUFmkcAzPmKvecqcpwFKD43
Receiver Balance: 19,591,418.254859
Link: https://t.co/6YWmkc5EYn

— XRPL Monitor (@XRPL_Monitor) April 2, 2020

Transaction Type: Payment
Amount: 19,500,000 XRP
Fee: 100 drops (0.0001 XRP)
Sender: Ripple
Sender Balance: 128,562,615.131211
Receiver: Ripple
Receiver Balance: 21,826,034.353898
Link: https://t.co/xRrzjkPppU

— XRPL Monitor (@XRPL_Monitor) April 2, 2020

Besides, earlier today, the XRP Liquidity Index hit a new all-time high in this Mexican ODL corridor. The new ATH amounts to 21,157,313 versus the previous one, 19,431,401. However, repeated are expecting the coin’s price to make a bearish reverse as soon as it hits the $ 0.19.

Liquidity Index for Bitso XRP/MXN (28-day moving trend)
Day progress: 4%
Today so far: 19,431,401
All Time High: 21,157,313
Data: https://t.co/v07j0Xh3s1 pic.twitter.com/7Rl7gIAwIf

— Liquidity Index Bot (@LiquidityB) April 3, 2020

At press time, the price of XRP is trading at $ 0.18. However, some analysts on TradingView believe that XRP is starting to decline.

Trader ‘Alex_Clay’ expects XRP to reverse at $ 0.18 and drop:

“The price formed a rising wedge bearish pattern.”

Source: Alex_Clay

David_Smith from the same trading platform offered a similar forecast:

“XRP got rejected by the midline of an ascending channel and the lower boundary of the formation can be retested.”

Trader ‘ProjectSyndicate’ is also going bearish on XRP:

“This is XRPUSD 4 hour chart we got in the spotlight right now. The marginal upside from here capped by 19.5cents. 15.5 is a low volume pocket, so re-test is very likely.”

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