As of 2015, Ripple is the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, after Bitcoin.
I bet it really pisses them off that they can't go after satoshi.
For additional lols, this means the US government is checking out coinmarketcap.com!
This is all a game to frame the reality and force all other cryptos to change so the criminal cartels can "protect us" from a threat statistically less likely to cause harm tha falling in the shower. This models how other cryptos can "attain legitimacy". This is a huge psyop imho. Ironic it happens to be Ripple right after Obama ex advisor joins.
Ripple is centralized and therefore far more controllable...so then they can pivot and do what is "right"...which essentially means selling out to the principles of what crypto was meant to do. If they would try this with far more decentralized cryptos...they would lose. So they have to set the precedent and frame reality with something they have controlled from the beginning...
As for the US gov as the bad guys...that is part of the psyop. The banking cartels take control of the country via a buy out of all politicians judges they can control...create a nightmare, frame it so the freedoms we had are to blame and then create propaganda to make other countries come together against us. Meanwhile, use policies like NAFTA to export jobs to countries with no protection for human rights, instate Cloward and Piven, bailout corrupt banking cartels to put the population even further in debt and incite race riots while the economy slowly fails....
Last push brings foreign troops to our shores from the BRICS nations and all nations signed onto the AIIB charter (or they lose their place and all the benefits)...to disarm us and potential potentially even intern them in hillary clintons' "fun camps".
Those are my "tin foil" thoughts...