@seanmcbride16@coinbureau Sean, leave alone that this guy is a a sucker, you know very well that you shouldn’t mention his fart face, because yours is the closest to a big beautiful smelly fart.
I saw it almost daily while on Ripple and every time I had this exact thought: look, it’s the fart face guy!
@RodrigoJapaa@TheCryptoSquire@TheCryptoSquire is indeed one of the biggest loosers
This kind of intentional misinterpretations of the facts is the most horrible thing on crypto twitter
@DawsonBarcey@TheCryptoSquire@TheCryptoSquire is indeed one of the biggest loosers
This kind of intentional misinterpretations of the facts is the most horrible thing on crypto twitter
@visegrad24 Gypsies originated in South Asia and later migrated across Europe. In Romania, they made up about 3.4% of the population according to the latest census. Migration toward Western Europe has continued over time, as illustrated in this clip.
Musk had the potential to be the world’s coolest man and achieve incredible things, but he instead chose to spread hate and disinformation while backing fascists
One last point that I don't make often enough:
We carefully and intentionally designed XRPL so that we could not control it. It's not because we weren't 100% confident we were the very smartest and very best people who could always make the very best decisions. We were confident we were and that we could. We did not lack ego.
But what we also knew was that given the regulatory environment and practical realities of being a company and having investors, there was simply no way we could be assured that we were in control over our own actions.
Ripple, for example, has to honor US court orders. It cannot say no. I think US courts are great and generally issue orders that make sense for good reasons. But could a US court decide that international comity with an oppressive was more important than XRPL or Ripple? We were quite concerned that could come down either way.
We absolutely and clearly decided that we DID NOT WANT control and that it would be to our own benefit to not have that control.
We always want people to trust us. People trusting me is all upside for me. I want as much of that as possible. So does Ripple. But people *having* to trust me or Ripple or anyone else to use XRPL is all downside for us. We knew very early that we wanted as little of that as possible.
We designed it so that we could not own or control it because that was the only way to ensure that nobody could own or control it.
And think about it. Say Ripple could censor transactions or double spend. If we ever did that, all trust in XRPL would be destroyed. It would never make sense for anyone to use that power. And the best way to be able to say "no" is to have to say "no" because you cannot do the thing asked.
Our entire objective in designing the consensus model was to limit its power, for selfish reasons at least as much as noble ones. And the design reflects those objectives.