XRP: The Cryptocurrency Nobody Can Agree On | Here's Why

Could XRP really hit $1,000 by 2030? And is Bitcoin actually more vulnerable to quantum attack than most people think? Phil and Dom Kwok are the Co-Founders of EasyA, a London-based Web3 education platform with over 1 million users and the world's largest crypto hackathon series. Past EasyA hackathon participants have raised funding from a16z, Y Combinator and Founders Fund, and over $4 billion worth of initiatives have emerged from their events. At Consensus Miami 2026 their hackathon attracted nearly 1,000 developers from crypto ecosystems like Base and Solana alongside engineers from Microsoft and Google, building AI-native startups spanning autonomous payments, consumer apps and prediction markets. In this conversation they make their boldest predictions yet on XRP, Bitcoin and the quantum threat nobody is talking about enough. They explain: ◼️ Why Dom predicts XRP could hit $1,000 by 2030 and what the killer app theory has to do with it ◼️ Why only 7% of the world owns crypto right now and who is going to buy XRP when the other 93% arrive ◼️ Why the XRP ledger is the blockchain built for business and why not having smart contracts is actually a feature not a bug ◼️ Why a team called Ticket Chain just won $50,000 at the XRP Shark Tank for building a Ticketmaster challenger on XRPL ◼️ Why Dom thinks Bitcoin is actually more vulnerable to quantum attack than XRP or Solana because it has no single team to respond ◼️ Why Phil compares crypto builders right now to Usain Bolt in training and why price does not matter during this phase ◼️ Why Bitcoin Maximalism puts brs on and excludes most of the world from entering crypto ◼️ Why 2026 is the year of the application layer and what that means for the next bull market cycle Al Jazeera ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [00:00] Intro [01:00] Why Dom Predicts XRP Hits $1,000 By 2030 [03:00] Why Only 7% Of The World Owns Crypto [04:30] Phil's Journey From Bitcoin Mining To XRP [06:00] The XRP Shark Tank Results And Winners [08:00] What Ticket Chain Is Building On XRPL [11:00] Does XRP Ledger Have Real Utility? [13:00] Why No Smart Contracts Is Actually A Feature [15:00] XRP's Role In Institutional Finance [18:00] What The Best Builders Are Making Right Now [21:00] Phil's Usain Bolt Analogy For Crypto Builders [23:00] The A16Z Developer And Price Chart Explained [26:00] Why Bitcoin Maximalism Is A Problem [29:00] Phil's Journey From The Bitcoin White Paper [32:00] Is Quantum A Real Risk To Crypto? [34:00] Why Bitcoin Is More Vulnerable Than XRP To Quantum [37:00] Why Phil Is Not Losing Sleep Over Quantum Yet ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Follow Phil and Dom Kwok: X — https://x.com/philkwok_ X — https://x.com/domkwok_ EasyA App — https://easya.io ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BeInCrypto: 🔗 More from BeInCrypto: 👉 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@Beincrypto 👉 BeInCrypto: https://beincrypto.com 👉 X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/beincrypto 👉 Telegram: https://t.me/+U8DQNp4b8Gw3YmZi ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #EasyA #PhilKwok #DomKwok #XRP #XRPPricePrediction #BitcoinMaximalism #QuantumBitcoin #XRPL #CryptoHackathon #BeInCrypto