Paul

[John Deaton @DeatonforSenate]

I hate asking for money, but I need your help.

Unlike career politicians, I don’t take PAC money. I don’t take lobbyist money. I don’t answer to special interests. This campaign is powered by hardworking people giving 25 bucks, 50 bucks, 100 bucks at a time because they believe Massachusetts deserves better.

If we’re going to defeat 53 years of politics as usual, I need your help right now.

If you believe in common sense, real solutions, and leaders who put people before politics, please chip in whatever you can today.

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Let’s shock the political establishment together.

[John E Deaton @JohnEDeaton1]

Earlier today, I commented on @bgarlinghouse’s post about @Ripple receiving a National Trust Charter. In his post, the CEO of Ripple referenced the bank lobby - one of the most influential lobbyists in the country. In fact, they were able to stop issuers from providing interest or a yield directly to stablecoin holders in Genius Act.

And look who has a problem with Ripple and the others receiving a Banking Charter and thus, becoming regulatory compliant innovation within the finance sector: the President and CEO of the American Bankers Association - @BankersPrez. 🤔

You want to know who the Bankers love to support: @EdMarkey. The banking industry/financial institutions have been one of his biggest donors. And why wouldn’t he be? After all, Markey bailed the banks out in 2008 - voting to give them $700 billion after their greed caused the Great Financial Crisis. While the banks foreclosed on hard-working Americans the bankers got bonuses at @jpmorgan - @MorganStanley -@BankofAmerica - @WellsFargo - AIG - @GoldmanSachs and others.

I can assure you, the Jamie Dimon’s and Rob Nichols’ of the world will be supporting Ed Markey against me in 2026. In fact, soon, I’ll be releasing a multi-legislative plan and I can assure the banks aren’t going to be very happy about some of the specifics - which means my ideas will be good for consumers.

Help me defeat Ed Markey and put the banks in their rightful place. 👇👇

https://t.co/enLxxSt64Y

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

HUGE news! @Ripple just received conditional approval from the @USOCC to charter Ripple National Trust Bank. This is a massive step forward - first for $RLUSD, setting the highest standard for stablecoin compliance with both federal (OCC) & state (NYDFS) oversight.

To the banking lobbyists – your anti-competitive tactics are transparent. You’ve complained that crypto isn’t playing by the same rules, but here’s the crypto industry – directly under the OCC's supervision and standards – prioritizing compliance, trust and innovation to the benefit of consumers. What are you so afraid of?

[Raoul Pal @RaoulGMI]

Utterly brutal crypto markets with relentless, rapid positions unwinding and rumours swirling after 10/10 of impaired market maker balance sheets leading to less liquidity and someone blowing up.

It reminds me a lot of 2021 when in a 4 week period Bitcoin fell 56%, ETH -62% and SOL fell -68%. It then sharply reversed and exploded to new highs. That sell off was as baffling as this one.

With the macro backdrop still so positive it is hard to think that we won't see something similar here (a sharp recovery) but massive downside volatility like this is not easy for anyone and not certainly something I expected to see at this stage, but it is also not out of the normal.

Back in 2019 to 2020 we had a -72% sell off (in a bull market but the sell off was exacerbated by Covid). Back in 2016 to 2017 we had 7 sell offs of over 30% in BTC. Alts always do worse of those periods too (see chart)

The current price action is showing no signs of letting up yet even though we are massively oversold, but having lived through huge rapid de-rsking events before in many markets, this too shall pass.

My strategy is to add into these sell offs but Im ok with large swings in P&L in a long-term multi-year trend as I've explained many times, but everyone circumstances and time horizons are different.

Good luck out there, its ugly and made harder by the lack of actual negative news outside of price. Try to get away from your screens if you can and get into nature to destress.

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

The pre-thanksgiving rush (shall we say, 'turkey trot'!?) for XRP ETFs starts now.. congrats @bitwise on today's launch!

[John E Deaton @JohnEDeaton1]

The one-party rule here in MA is NOT healthy. Those in power for too long become arrogant. Although Diana DiZoglio is a Democrat she is proving that it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or Republican - what matters is whether or not you’re going to put people before party - whether you’re going to place truth and transparency above politics. @maura_healey & @EdMarkey place party before people - politics over transparency. The State Auditor should not have to fight this hard for transparency. But I applaud her for her efforts and pledge my help in bringing truth and transparency to the people of MA. 👏

[Paul @materialspaul1]

@MoonLamboio 😂😂

[Moon Lambo @MoonLamboio]

@bgarlinghouse @evernorthxrp Wow, badass!! $XRP

I’m looking forward to learning more about it 😎🤘🏻🔥

[Paul @materialspaul1]

@Dogeh8er @bgarlinghouse @MoonLamboio

[Paul @materialspaul1]

@Dogeh8er @bgarlinghouse @MoonLamboio

[Paul @materialspaul1]

@bgarlinghouse Congratulations 🎊🎉🥳

[Paul @materialspaul1]

@MoonLamboio That’s one big ass ring mate congratulations 🥂

[John Squire 🇺🇸 @TheCryptoSquire]

🚨 Brad Garlinghouse, CEO de Ripple:

“Cross-border payments move in the trillions, yet SWIFT — a system designed over a decade ago — still dominates.

It’s time to bring global finance into the modern era.”

#XRP is the bridge. 🌉💎

[John Squire 🇺🇸 @TheCryptoSquire]

🇺🇸 VP JD Vance: “Crypto is a way of storing value in the modern digital age.”

🔑 $XRP stands among the assets aiming to lead that transformation.

[X-Art ☀️ @Dogeh8er]

@bgarlinghouse @BlackRock @vaneck_us @Securitize https://t.co/A2yph4Rz9Q

[mickle @xrpmickle]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Paul @materialspaul1]

@MoonLamboio Had a similar dream / nightmare 🫣

[bill morgan @Belisarius2020]

Ripple is bad because it holds too much XRP which makes the XRPL centralised.

Ripple is bad because it sells XRP because it is dumping on investors.

The deranged logic of Bitcoin maxis.

The market has emphatically disagreed with them for more than a decade which is why XRP has often being a top 3 coin, rarely outside the top 5 and never been outside the top 10 coins.

[John E Deaton @JohnEDeaton1]

Ouch!

[Paul @materialspaul1]

@Freki_OG ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥