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Think for yourself

[LWL @Free_Eagle1776]

@Bobby_1111888 @Leostabs @EB_CK01 @TariqKurdi1 I appreciate your due diligence. Needed to be done. Haters usually have no long-term vision or discipline to get there. Onward bro

[Handy Andy {X} 🪝 𝗫▸ @Handy_4ndy]

This is where a lot of us are at right now.

Plenty of teams and builders quietly working out how much longer they can keep going. I know a few (myself included) who are on the last roll of the dice. Most of us have been around a long time, bootstrapping everything, and the lack of support for independent builders is just painful.

I’ve been in this ecosystem 4 years. Hackathons, community events, the first core dev bootcamp with XRPL Commons… I went into that hoping it might open a door into core development. Improving the network and adding features that actually benefit the community is what I wanted to do from the start. Walking away with the knowledge but nowhere to apply it will be a hard pill to swallow.

I’ve still got amendment work I want to push and a full embedded client library, but I can’t keep carrying that work with zero support. The Devnet portal is my last real swing. If it doesn’t land, I’ll have no choice but to walk away and put my energy somewhere else.

[Heavy Pulp @heavypulp]

Sweet Land - an ode to America's 250th year. 🇺🇸

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

“WOULD YOU SIGN IT?”

That is what my 6th grade teacher asked me when I was on a class trip to Philadelphia. He said “every year ask yourself this question and may your answer always be yes”.

YES I WOULD SIGN IT!

On July 4, 1776, in the stifling heat of Independence Hall, 56 men from 13 colonies took quills in hand and signed their names to a document that branded them traitors to the British Crown. They were not poor, desperate men with nothing to lose.

They knew exactly what their signatures could cost them.

They pledged to each other and to us their Lives, their Fortunes, and their sacred Honor.

Here is what that pledge truly meant:

Their Very Lives
By signing, they invited the hangman’s noose. High treason carried a sentence of death by hanging, drawing, and quartering. British authorities would hunt them down, tried them in absentia, and executed them without mercy. Five signers were captured and thrown into brutal prisons. Nine ultimately died from wounds or the crushing hardships of the war they helped ignite. They signed anyway.

Their Hard-Earned Fortunes
Many of these men were among the wealthiest in the colonies. Carter Braxton of Virginia watched his merchant ships swept from the seas. Thomas Nelson Jr. of Virginia urged American artillery to fire on his own home when it was occupied by British troops at Yorktown. Seventeen signers lost their homes or everything they owned and debts mounted as they poured their wealth into the cause of freedom.

Their Homes and Hearths
The British and their Loyalist allies made the signers’ properties targets. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned to the ground. William Floyd’s beautiful Long Island estate was occupied and ravaged by enemy troops for seven long years. Josiah Bartlett’s and William Ellery’s residences were deliberately set ablaze. John Hart was driven from his home while it was looted, his mill and crops destroyed.

The Safety and Lives of Their Beloved Families
This was perhaps the cruelest cost. Francis Lewis of New York saw his home and estate utterly destroyed; his wife was captured by the British and held in a harsh prison for months. Her health was broken, and she died soon after her release. Abraham Clark of New Jersey endured the agony of knowing two of his sons had been captured and imprisoned on the infamous British prison ships, where disease and starvation claimed thousands. Families were scattered, forced into hiding, or left vulnerable while their fathers became fugitives. The signers knew their wives and children could pay the price for their courage.

The Comfortable World They Knew
They turned their backs on the security of British protection, the vast markets of empire, the familiar rule of law, and the ordered colonial life they had built. They chose instead the terrifying unknown of war, self-government, and possible ruin all for the radical, sacred idea that governments derive “their just powers from the consent of the governed” and that all men are created equal.

Not one of the fifty-six defected.
Not one recanted.

They kept their pledge to the end.
Because these ordinary men of extraordinary courage were willing to lose everything, we gained a nation — a Republic “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

On this Independence Day 2026, as the fireworks burst across the skies of a free America, remember the price that was paid. Remember the homes that burned, the families that suffered, the fortunes that vanished, and the lives that were given or broken.

Freedom is never free.

It was purchased with the Lives, Fortunes, and sacred Honor of fifty-six patriots who loved liberty more than they loved their own comfort, safety, or survival.
May we prove worthy of their sacrifice.

May we never forget what they were willing to lose — so that we might live free.

God bless America.

Happy Independence Day.

Now the question:

WOULD YOU SIGN IT?

[LWL @Free_Eagle1776]

@Prolotario1 Excellent post from real-world experience- much appreciated

[LWL @Free_Eagle1776]

@janeway888 Merry Christmas Jane

[LWL @Free_Eagle1776]

@realMaxAvery I can look back over my life and see those crucial moments, only those who forge forward win. thanks Max for the reminder.

[LWL @Free_Eagle1776]

@CryptosR_Us Maybe...prolly fall... or 2026. But it will get passed

[“Sudden And Unexpected” @toobaffled]

Do you have a healer or a drug dealer?

https://t.co/Upi87QFHou

[LWL @Free_Eagle1776]

@realMaxAvery Awesome post Max! only the wise will heed the warning...

[LWL @Free_Eagle1776]

@thedrivenman Everyone posting about hoodies and t-shirts are referring to people who are famous (Financial Pop Stars) and everyone already knows their accomplishments (impressive to say the least) but most wealthy individuals dress accordingly and walk quietly

[LWL @Free_Eagle1776]

@busterdogdad @XRPamoremio They all left...

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

💯

[LWL @Free_Eagle1776]

@CoinClubQuincy a language all our own.... walking among the blind

[LWL @Free_Eagle1776]

@AlpacaAurelius I wonder if a grounding pad works for the winter months?

[LWL @Free_Eagle1776]

@matthewramirrez @AlpacaAurelius corded earphones or headphones, no bluetooth, too much radiation around your brain

[LWL @Free_Eagle1776]

@MrAMERICA8 @DigitalG15 D'cent cold storage wallet (physical device) or download an XDC wallet app on your phone (warm wallet).

[LWL @Free_Eagle1776]

@PharaohX33 'This is the way'

[JuliansRum @ItsJuliansRum]

@rustyrockets America is the beacon of freedom for all nations. It is the only nation to acknowledge that human beings have inalienable rights that come from God not governments. To be pro-American is to support the keystone of freedom in our world. If America falls the world falls.