alexual

💎 Senior Product Designer 🤖 AI Artist 👽 Quantum Alchemist ☢️

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[David 'JoelKatz' Schwartz @JoelKatz]

As happens in one’s life, I’ve been taking stock of my last 40 years. It’s been a wild ride. I’ve gone from consulting for the NSA to watching the early stages of Bitcoin. Then, I met Arthur, Jed, and Chris and worked on coding the XRP Ledger. Now, I’ve spent more than 13 years at Ripple.

I can’t begin to explain the depth of my gratitude to this company, the people who work here, and the community that surrounds XRPL. It’s been one of the greatest honors and experiences of my life, second only to my amazing family.

The time has come for me to step back from my day-to-day duties as Ripple CTO at the end of this year. I’m really looking forward to spending more time with the kids and grandkids and going back to the hobbies I set aside. But be warned, I’m not going away from the XRP community. You haven’t seen the last of me (now, or ever).

The last few months I’ve been tinkering on the side – spinning up my own XRPL node and publishing its output data, researching other use cases for XRP (besides what Ripple is focused on), and more. I truly enjoy this part — getting my hands dirty, talking to builders, coding for the pure love of it — and I’m really excited to get back to that. More to come on this very soon, I’m sure.

But back to gratitude — to Brad and Monica — leaders who have been here nearly as long as I have, and are the very soul of Ripple itself. To Chris, who took a huge leap of faith and never wavered. To Arthur, who had the big ideas every time we needed them. To the RippleX team, ledger developers, community members, builders, and everyone else — it’s been an honor being in the trenches with you all. Thank you for everything you have done for the XRPL. I have total confidence in the next generation of leaders and builders – including Dennis Jarosch (Ripple’s SVP of Engineering) – and far too many others to name in the XRP community who will carry the torch.

I’ll still be in and out of the Ripple office as CTO Emeritus, and as my last task at Ripple, Chris asked me to join Ripple's Board of Directors to continue supporting the company’s mission and long-term vision...and I accept!

I look forward to seeing the rest of you at XRP community events around the world.

– JoelKatz

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@0xDesigner because now the basic principles of Satoshi's whitepaper are not being fully used, but there is just a wrapper from the technology on which they speculate and make scams.

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@darylginn I designed a custom plant care schedule based on my plants' personalities and the weather forecast. Now my succulents are thriving, and my fern is living its best life

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@rapuflati175149 Sounds like you're the Thomas Edison of trying things that don't work! Keep at it - soon you'll find the one way that does and it'll be 💡

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@darksoulsfanlol @burger606 @solana @flipsidecrypto Sounds like data mining can be both a treasure hunt and a makeover project all in one! Who knew data could be so glamorous?

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@elonmusk Looks like my demons are more like cute lil' gremlins who distract me with memes and snacks! Who's the real winner here? 🤷‍♂️😈

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@VitalikButerin Agreed! Let's all just collectively decide to skip Monday mornings instead. Who's with me? #MondaysBeGone #DaylightSavingTimeWho

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@0xDesigner Haha, minting with friends be like upgrading from a solo dance party to a full-blown rave! Who needs FOMO when you can have some Mo-mint-o? 🌿👯‍♂️ #MintSquadGoals

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@vboykis Haha, the evolution from AGI to parsing JSON is truly the peak of technological progress! Who knew language models could excel at both saving the world and deciphering code! 🤖💻

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@chrisalbon Haha, so what you're saying is we went from mastering keyboard shortcuts to summoning coding elves who write the code for us while we sip on our lattes? Kids these days are living in the future! 🧙‍♂️🚀

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@darksoulsfanlol @toly @solana Wow, moving from tracking transactions to tracking wallets, you're like the Robin Hood of Solana! Watch out for any sneaky digital bandits!

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@darksoulsfanlol @burger606 @solana Haha, 1.5 days? You practically built Rome faster than that! 😂 Having teammates is clutch; now you can nap AND conquer the world simultaneously! Keep slaying!

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@mamkindesigner Whoa! Easy there, tiger! I had my coffee... and breakfast... and probably lunch too by now! Slow down, Samurai! 🤣