Yesterday, I celebrated 11 years at Ripple. Back then, I couldn’t have predicted that we’d still be fighting for regulatory clarity.
The fight has been worth it. After a day in DC having great conversations with @SenatorHagerty, @berniemoreno, @SenatorTimScott, @JohnBoozman and @patrickjwitt - and on stage at @Semafor World Economic Summit - I know we are closer than ever.
The CLARITY Act window is open. And now is our moment to act.
@ChadSteingraber Vivek answering and refuting questions is your akin to Taylor singing and playing to the crowd...it's a symphony. Except when he gets in office, then hopefully he's Negan with a barb wire wrapped ball bat.
@sentosumosaba XRP is still the secret sauce for ODL. Ripple was covering their butts, and for US customers using ODL domestically, USDT works fine, but still carries counter party risk when sending money cross border. XRP is the bridge asset between all assets and countries, it's all 👍
Remember this?
It’s been over 20 years since “All your base are belong to us” became one of the first big internet memes. Taken from the opening sequence of the 1989 Japanese arcade game “Zero Wing,” the video attracted attention in the Y2k Era for its bizarre English translation. After someone made an EDM remix of it, the video spread widely on sites like Newgrounds. Early internet pranksters & hackers would often use the phrase—for example, in 2003, when seven people in Sturgis, Michigan placed signs around town that read “All your base are belong to us” and were mistaken for domestic terrorists.
Nowadays, the phrase is most commonly found as an easter egg in video games, or a cringe reference by government officials, such as when AOC tweeted “All your base (are) belong to us” in 2019 in response to a tax-rate poll, or when Philadephia police in 2015 used the phrase “All your cones and lawn chairs are belong to us” to enforce parking laws.
This video is now a nostalgic relic to an earlier, more innocent, and sillier side of the internet, when memes spread through forums and emails, before sites like Newgrounds would cede their engagement to sites like Facebook, before the social media revolution begun.