Bill Morgan Revives 2013 Felix Salmon "Promise of Ripple" Claiming XRP Outshines Bitcoin

On February 9, 2026, pro-crypto lawyer Bill Morgan argued that XRP was deliberately sidelined in favor of Bitcoin after a 2013 Felix Salmon article praising Ripple and XRP became difficult to access. He linked the redacted section of a recently released U.S. sensitive file and the apparent disappearance of the blog to alleged efforts to bury XRP's once positive and technically superior image, even as market data show Bitcoin still leading and XRP trading around $1.40 after recent declines.