Mike McCrypto

Crypto Enthusiast

[Emanuel Quiñones @EQuinones6310]

The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.

And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.

Here is what they are discovering:

Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s.

Then they found the grocery stores.

Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.

The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.

They finally understand why we do not have trains.

We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.

Why would we need trains.

The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.

Welcome to America!
The greatest country on earth.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jimmy Carr nailed something a lot of us feel but can’t explain.

We’re living better than 99.9% of humans who ever walked the earth, hot showers, modern medicine, endless entertainment, kids that actually survive infancy, yet so many of us feel miserable.

He calls it “life dysmorphia.” We get used to how good we have it (the hedonic treadmill), then compare ourselves to everyone else and tank our own happiness.

As he puts it: happiness = quality of life minus envy.

Marcus Aurelius put it perfectly: “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”

When was the last time you caught yourself feeling unhappy despite objectively having it pretty damn good?

[Digital Perspectives @DigPerspectives]

I`m not selling my XRP.😎👇

[ALLINCRYPTO @RealAllinCrypto]

🚨 $ICP BEING USED BY UNITED NATIONS!

Almost forgot to mention earlier as well as $ALGO & $XLM, @dfinity have been selected to help developing nations around the world,

Here's @PierreSamaties of Dfinity speaking on how $ICP World Computer can help improve lives!

[XRP Update @XrpUdate]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM💥

@Ripple’s prime brokerage arm, Hidden Road, now appears on the DTCC participant list alongside firms like J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Citi, HSBC, and Charles Schwab.

Another step forward in bridging traditional finance and digital assets. 📈

[SMQKE @SMQKEDQG]

‼️MAJORITY OF INSTITUTIONS PREFER FULL STACK DIGITAL ASSET PARTNERS LIKE RIPPLE‼️

US institutions are demanding full-stack digital asset infrastructure providers rather than point solutions.🎯

Full-stack solutions connect custody, core systems, payments, brokerage, treasury, and settlement into ONE unified operational layer.🌐

Meanwhile, point solutions offer ONLY isolated pieces, requiring institutions to stitch together multiple vendors.🔻

“Across every factor, the expectation is the same: full-stack delivery, not point solutions. US institutions are NOT selecting for a single capability, they are selecting for a provider that can deliver across the entire stack.”✅

This is directly from a 2026 Fireblocks U.S institutional survey.

“When US institutions SELECT a digital asset infrastructure provider, their criteria reflect their focus on connecting custody, core systems, and payment infrastructure into a SINGLE operational layer that will be ready to scale when the REGULATORY framework is clarified.”✅

Ripple has executed precisely this model through targeted acquisitions:

• Hidden Road for institutional prime brokerage

• GTreasury for treasury management

• Metaco for custody

• Rail for stablecoin infrastructure

No competitor has matched this level of consolidation at the same speed and depth.😏💨

This is the exact reason why Ripple and XRP’s use case will not be overtaken by any other crypto company.🔒

Documented below.📝👇

[NEWSMAX @NEWSMAX]

The Trump administration plans ‌to unveil a framework for trading tokenized or digital versions of securities, Bloomberg News reported Monday, citing people familiar with the ‌matter.

MORE: https://t.co/4WsjEGmlzk

[Ripple Bull Winkle | Crypto Researcher 🚀🚨 @RipBullWinkle]

A brokerage managing $13 trillion just told 35 million clients what XRP is and why it matters.

Most people saw the Bitcoin headline.

They completely missed what Schwab did with $XRP behind the scenes. 🧵

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined.

Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”

One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had.

Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation.

Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it.

Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans.

They conquered until they collapsed.

America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined.

And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated.

Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”

Almost unprecedented?

It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history.

The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid.

It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed.

America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership.

Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation.

Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.

Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.

A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it.

That’s not policy.

That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything.

You’re being told a story right now.

That America is the villain of history.

You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms.

Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”

Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one.

The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it.

And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.

Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.”

Probably right.

China has historically built walls, not fleets.

But the real question isn’t about borders anymore.

We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet.

AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint.

If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be?

The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to?

Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy.

Billions lifted out of poverty.

All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before.

And carries no guarantee of being repeated.

The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.

It was what it didn’t do after.

[Tim Tebow @TimTebow]

Attitude is a choice.
Gratitude is a discipline.
Bitterness is expensive.

Nobody accidentally has a great attitude.
Nobody stumbles into gratitude.
And nobody means to end up bitter, it just quietly moves in when you stop choosing something better.
Guard your peace like it cost you something.
Because it did.

[Senator Tim Scott @SenatorTimScott]

Let’s make America the crypto capital of the world.

[Taya Bass @travelingflying]

Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.

Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.

Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”

[Ripple @Ripple]

This is a meaningful step toward 24/7 global financial markets.

By combining the XRP Ledger with global banking infrastructure, this pilot shows how institutions can execute cross-border transactions in a single integrated flow.

[mickle @xrpmickle]

Ripple is the AWS of crypto running on XRP rails.

[The Wolf Of All Streets @scottmelker]

BREAKING: 🚨 J.P. MORGAN, MASTERCARD, RIPPLE AND ONDO COMPLETE FIRST NEAR-REAL-TIME CROSS-BORDER TOKENIZED TREASURY REDEMPTION ON RIPPLE'S XRP LEDGER

[Chad Steingraber @ChadSteingraber]

The monster is coming…

13,000 Connected Banks.

$12.5Trillion in volume.

XRP

[XRP Bags💰👨🏽‍🚀 BagMan @XRPBags]

DTCC only. nothing else added.

$4.7 quadrillion processed last year. XRP integrated through Ripple Prime. Susan Athey Stanford valuation model. 61.68 billion XRP supply. 5 year timeline. 5% discount rate.

present value: $817 per $XRP.

that's one institution. one integration. one use case.

SWIFT not included. forex not included. derivatives not included. $90 trillion tokenization not included.

$817 before any of that.

not my math. Stanford's math. DTCC's numbers.

[Special Ops Magazine @specialopsmag]

The last photo taken before the battle.

From left to right: Delta Force operators Brad Halling (survived), and MSG Gary Gordon and SFC Randy Shughart; both of whom would earn the Medal of Honor for their sacrifice.

Kneeling: SFC Dan Busch, who was posthumously awarded the Silver Star.

Three of these men gave their lives during the Battle of Mogadishu, Somalia, 1993. Choosing to fight and protect others in the face of overwhelming odds.

Legends. Warriors. Brothers.
Never forgotten.

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

100%
All roads lead back to Ripple’s North Star, $XRP.

[Monica Long @MonicaLongSF]

Ripple Custody has been on a tear the past few months. Digital asset custody is the foundation for any enterprise moving into crypto, whether you’re a bank or a fintech. Ripple Custody is built for how and where customers already operate — customizable to their needs, not one-size-fits-all.

With Ripple Custody you get:
- Flexible deployment (SaaS, on-prem, hybrid)
- Integrations across payments, tokenization, and staking
- Stronger controls + simpler workflow

These capabilities are clearly resonating, with new global customers like Kbank and Kyobo Life Insurance joining BBVA, Intesa Sanpaolo, AMINA Bank, and others on our roster. Proud of the team for meeting our customers where they are, and continuing to ship a top-tier product.