Rando

Insight with a pulse. Stirred, not shouted.

[Rando @gg2051968]

Those in the top 1% have it harder than the 99% think they do.

But not as hard as they think they do.

[Rando @gg2051968]

Philosophers would have a field day on this. No such thing as knowledge. It was knowledge that you were having dinner with Tom Cruise and then you woke up from the dream. And it was also knowledge that you took off with the train, until you realised it was the other train moving.

Everything is a belief. It’s just that one belief is easier to believe than the other.

[Rando @gg2051968]

@Vet_X0 @luke_judges Cool thanks Vet but technically speaking, can we not have both?

[Rando @gg2051968]

@Vet_X0 @luke_judges Are you still sure smart contracts wouldn’t be the best thing in the world for the XRPL if we had them?

[Rando @gg2051968]

@Vet_X0 @kwok_phil Just so you know Vet my experience with these guys have been that they come off very strongly on the hype and say nothing of substance in the end. All will be “later” and “soon”. Never seen anything concrete.

[Rando @gg2051968]

@Vet_X0 @cryptorover Funny stuff, why would there be any talks, the US is notorious for inviting everyone to talks and then bombing them. Basically playing dirty.

But if you asked them, they would just say how they started playing dirty first. Ok. 🙂

[Rando @gg2051968]

@ScamDetective5 I don’t trust the Kwok brothers. @dom_kwok @kwok_phil

[Rando @gg2051968]

@Vet_X0 @Dan_Fisher_XRP The interledged protocol sounds like such a key pluming infrastructure but nobody seems to talk about it? I wonder, isn’t the importance of this ignored a little bit?

[Rando @gg2051968]

@Belisarius2020 Maybe these are like smart contracts but are not actually smart contracts

[Rando @gg2051968]

@ScamDetective5 Haha OK bub just wanted to get that thought in your head.

[Rando @gg2051968]

@Vet_X0 Pretty cool to see the plumbing for money movements. It’s like as if the mechanism for money movements got more transparent with blockchain? I don’t know, probalbly nothing

[Rando @gg2051968]

@Belisarius2020 Could the blockchain be theoretically revived?

[Rando @gg2051968]

@elonmusk What someone is on the spectrum and has access to billions of dollars?

[Rando @gg2051968]

Time for you guys to see this no incentive thing as part of a powerful analogy.

Meet Linux. Thousands of developers contribute to maintaining it for free. They fix bugs, improve performance, and add features. And, lo and behold, many of those same developers work for companies that earn large amounts of money using Linux.

So the incentive structure looks like this:
1. Maintain the shared infrastructure (Linux) collaboratively.
2. Use that infrastructure to build valuable products or services.
3. Charge money for those higher-level offerings.

In other words, people maintain the base layer for free because it enables the creation of things that can actually be sold.

Other examples of the same pattern include:
- WordPress (people maintain the platform; others sell themes, hosting, and services)
- Python (maintained collaboratively; companies sell software built with it)

@Vet_X0 hopefully you like this one and can use it in your comms

[Rando @gg2051968]

@Vet_X0 Boom, thanks @Vet_X0 🫡

[Rando @gg2051968]

@worldcatlover @BBCNews Have you heard about this things called a “deposit” Brenda? Wow

[Rando @gg2051968]

@HaileyLennonBTC @CryptoLawUS I have a strong suspicion tha people like SBF, who grew up affluent grossly underestimate the rest of the population and think they just wouldn’t think of that. This notion explains a lot of the actions of affluent but guilty people. They think we wouldn’t notice.

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@Vet_X0 @luke_judges @luke_judges gentle nudge here, let me know on the above. This amendment is one of those “huge” ones in terms of what Ripple does (institutional adoption) so naturally we are all eager to see how this is done with a specific example you brought up below. Thanks, Rando

[Rando @gg2051968]

@Vet_X0 @luke_judges hello again! So now that pDomains and pDEX are live, how are we looking on enabling those payments?

I wonder, have you guys assembled the actual products yet and what not?

https://t.co/nMGn3s0NhR

[Rando @gg2051968]

@Vet_X0 @luke_judges I wonder, is it this amendment or this and also other amendments needed for the below payments to happen?

https://t.co/h8tJpefonq