BrutallyHonest Faces XRP Community Pushback Over Criticism of Ripple

Crypto commentator BrutallyHonest faced criticism from some XRP community members after challenging Ripple’s account of how RLUSD and XRP are used in payments, while responses also included agreement with one of his claims.

In a video posted Oct. 30, BrutallyHonest, who posts as @MotowarriorX, addressed people criticizing him for challenging Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse. He accused Ripple and Garlinghouse of lying to the XRP community by describing RLUSD as complementary to XRP.

BrutallyHonest claimed that all cross-border dollar-to-dollar transactions, as well as transactions within the United States, use RLUSD rather than XRP. He questioned why XRP could bridge payments between pesos and dollars but was not used for transfers between dollar balances.

He asked holders, “Ask yourself, are you pro-Ripple or are you pro-XRP?”

The responses cited in the discussion included one commenter who agreed with his claim about dollar-to-dollar payments, then accused him of dishonesty and lacking basic knowledge of XRP. Another argued that XRP holders were too quick to defend Garlinghouse against criticism.