John Deaton, who founded CryptoLaw news media and is also a big fan of XRP, has taken to Twitter to disagree with Anthony Pompliano about Bitcoin being the only option to become the cryptocurrency of Twitter.

Instead of the flagship crypto and even Elon Musk’s beloved favorite Dogecoin, Deaton stated that Ripple-affiliated XRP played this important role years before BTC.

“XRP were used for micropayments on Twitter years before BTC”

Deaton responded to a tweet by VC investor and entrepreneur Anthony Pompliano, who suggested that if Elon Musk wants to integrate a cryptocurrency on the recently bought Twitter, the only payment network that it could be is Bitcoin — not DOGE, as many have been expecting.

Pomp believes that only Bitcoin could “handle instantaneous, global micro transactions at scale,” apparently bearing in mind Lightning Network. He also reminded the community that Bitcoin has already been adopted on Twitter thanks to Bitcoin maximalist Jack Dorsey when he was Twitter CEO.

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I’m not sure why people say things that are demonstrably not true. And before the haters call me an #XRP Maxi, I have a larger investment in #Bitcoin than #XRP. I don’t know why people ignore the fact that #XRP was being used as a micropayment ON…