14 years ago, we got together with an idea to build a better way to move value. What happened next was something none of us could have built alone.
And by "us," I don't just mean the three of us.
I mean the developers, validators, businesses, community members, and everyone who helped shape XRP into what it is today.
Happy Birthday, XRP!
Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.
Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”
I hoped President Trump’s post was fake. It is not.
Let me be clear - I am not a reflexive critic suffering from TDS unable to give credit where credit is due. Unlike @SenMarkey or @sethmoulton, I don’t let partisan politics blind me to reality.
I give credit to the President for securing our border and stopping the flood of illegal migrants - something @JoeBiden could’ve done but chose not to.
I give credit for deregulating our business and energy markets.
Credit for persuading multi-billion and trillion-dollar companies to invest in America and bring manufacturing home.
Credit for peace deals.
Credit for No Tax on Tips and No Tax on Overtime - genuine middle-class relief.
Credit for 4.3% real GDP growth in Q3 of 2025, outperforming every forecast.
Credit for new stock market highs fueled by investor confidence in deregulation and corporate tax stability.
Credit for achieving meaningful energy independence by rolling back EPA overreach, fast-tracking permits, surging domestic oil and gas production, and driving gas prices below $3 in 43 states by late 2025.
Credit for the boldest nuclear modernization in a generation - reforming the NRC and deploying advanced SMRs to
strengthen our power grid.
Credit for a 56% drop in fentanyl trafficking at the southern border by designating cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
Credit for mediating a second Gaza ceasefire, and for the Houthi truce that reopened Red Sea shipping lanes.
Credit for reciprocal tariffs that took U.S. customs revenue from $40 billion to over $160 billion in a single year.
Credit for DOGE identifying billions in wasteful federal spending.
Credit, as @mcuban noted, for fast-tracking domestic medicine production and the Most-Favored-Nation drug pricing order - finally making sure Americans don’t pay more for prescriptions than citizens in other developed countries.
That is a record that can be easily defended.
But I cannot - and will not - defend what I saw posted tonight.
Threatening to bomb power plants and bridges in Iran is not a strategy. It is a catastrophe in the making: for Iran, for the region, and for every American who fills up their gas tank, heats their home, or runs a business.
The Strait of Hormuz carries roughly 20-30% of the world’s seaborne oil. If that waterway stays closed - or if strikes trigger a broader escalation - oil prices don’t just rise. They spiral. We’re talking $150-$250 a barrel. Gas at $6. Diesel surging - which means every truck that moves goods across this country gets more expensive. Groceries. Medicine. Building materials. Everything.
The inflation this administration worked hard to tame comes roaring back and this time and it won’t be blamed on COVID supply chains. It will be a war-tax paid by working Americans, every single day, at every single pump and checkout line.
The global economy cannot absorb a sustained oil shock without consequences that reach every corner of the world and every household in Massachusetts.
And then there’s the human cost cheerleaders, like @marklevinshow, @benshapiro, and @LindseyGrahamSC, refuse to discuss.
They’ve spent years telling Iranians to rise up against the mullahs. But you can’t rise in the dark. You can’t organize without water. You can’t overthrow a regime when you are simply trying to survive.
Bombing power plants and civilian infrastructure doesn’t liberate the Iranian people - it breaks them. It drives them toward the very regime we want them to reject.
Levin amplifying this post on Easter Sunday - gleefully, enthusiastically - tells you everything about whose interests he is actually serving. It’s not America’s. And it is not the Iranian people’s.
I believe in peace through strength. I believe in protecting American lives and American economic security. I believe a great nation exhausts every alternative before it chooses the path of maximum destruction. That’s not weakness. That’s America 🇺🇸 First.
If there is precisely one thing you watch today, make it this. French Senator Claude Malhuret. A microphone. And the most magnificently savage dismantling of the Trump administration ever delivered in a language they almost certainly don’t speak.
He covers Iran. He covers corruption. He covers the kind of staggering, industrial-scale incompetence that would get you fired from managing a car park. And he does it with the calm, unhurried certainty of a man who has read every page of the indictment and found it, if anything, worse than expected.
France has never pretended to like these people. But this is contempt elevated to an art form. The kind of refined, aristocratic disdain that takes centuries of civilization to produce and approximately ninety seconds to deploy.
Malhuret sounds like he is four seconds from the button. Not out of panic. Out of sheer, exhausted disgust.
Honestly? Understandable.
Watch it. Share it. The adults are speaking.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
Robert De Niro on Trump: "He’s a punk. He’s a dog. He’s a pig. He’s a con. A BS artist. A mutt who doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Doesn’t do his homework. Doesn’t care. Doesn’t pay his taxes. He’s an idiot."
🚨 Surprise en rayon !
Nous avons rectifié les étiquettes des granulés de bois Biosyl, vendus par @intermarche… directement en magasin ! Ces granulés viennent potentiellement en partie de coupes rases.
@intermarche@Carrefour@Leclerc@Auchan, stoppez la vente de ces produits
🚨That's What it Means to Have Balls 👏👏👏
🚨The speech of Belgian deputy Mark Botenga at the European Parliament session went viral in the European social media segment.
An extremely pointed message from @POTUS to those who are dragging their feet on CLARITY.
This is, and always has been, about what’s in the best interest of the American people.
On our way back from the Springfield Sportsmen’s Show to get ahead of the nor’easter coming to Massachusetts, we made a quick stop at the Basketball Hall of Fame. It’s a historic place, and Western Massachusetts is ready to make some history of its own by helping us unseat a 50-year sitting senator. It’s time for change.
Breaking #EpsteinFiles news from #Legion of #Anonymous. We found 3,907 #Epstein files that are locked behind invalid links. We are fixing these links and getting ids for people in them and film locations. Updates will come every few days. #Opchildsafety
https://t.co/mpPvg5tHDS
Now that we’re exposing the extent of Epstein’s global pedophile ring and how it touches our government and aristocracy, there’s a campaign to smear me in social media. Well known accounts are being paid to attack.
Please occupy their replies with facts and reason.
Thank you!
Republican Congressman Thomas Massie has said he is ready to go all the way in investigating the Epstein case. He is prepared to put his life and political career on the line to prove to the world that Jeffrey Epstein’s child-trafficking operation was not a hoax.
“My political career is at stake, as well as my own health and well-being.” “I’ve upset a lot of billionaires who clearly lack high moral standards,” he said, adding: “I eat healthy food. The brakes on my car and truck are in good condition. I follow firearm safety rules and never point a gun at anyone, including myself. There are no deep bodies of water on my farm, and I’m a decent swimmer.”
He understands that releasing the files could destroy the careers and reputations of many individuals involved. And all of them are powerful figures with money, influence, and authority. Just recall the aggressive and vindictive Trump.
Let’s wish Thomas Massie resilience and courage in this difficult and dangerous matter. He needs support. If you agree — like and share.