>>20220951Court dates are a good way to pass the time, but I wouldn't get your hopes up.
The case will not conclude on May 20th.
We have to wait somewhere between 1 to 3 months from then (assuming there are not delays) for Judge Torres to render her verdict on how much Ripple should pay,
along with if there will be an injunction against Ripple for direct institutional sales of XRP.
After that, the SEC will appeal the case to the Appellate Court.
After the Appellate Court process is all done, then the SEC will appeal to the Supreme Court.
After the Supreme Court renders a verdict, then, and only then will the case be officially concluded.
Tomorrow doesn't matter.
May 20th doesn't matter.
Whenever Judge Torres renders her verdict and Ripple pays it's fine doesn't matter.
The Appellate Court rendering a verdict doesn't matter.
None of them will motivate Ripple to tell the company running their price suppression bots to turn them off.
Ripple's boot will remain firmly pressed on the neck of XRP.
Only once the Supreme Court renders it's verdict will Ripple remove it's boot, and XRP be allowed to breath.
What will be funny, is if Ripple did such a great job suppressing the price of XRP for so long, that they basically trained the market to never let XRP pump; no matter the circumstances.
It's like if Ripple forced XRP to sit in a wheelchair and never walk for so long, that XRP's legs atrophied over the years, and now it cant even stand on its own two feet without collapsing immediately.
I hope Ripple has accounted for the atrophy and bed sores that XRP undoubtably has by now.
All of which is a guess.
Ripple could instead sadistically decide to not turn off the bots until everything is in place, including new crypto legislation and XRP officially be adopted for use by international banks.
Which would be 2030 (The Great Reset) if we're lucky.
Look how long J.P. Morgan Chase successfully suppressed the price of silver.
Suppressing XRP's price is nothing to these people.