You Won’t Believe Ripple’s Bizarre Origins: Songs, Spies, and Vanishing Founders!
Is “Ripple” just a rock ballad? Pah! Fugger, that most mysterious creature, claimed the name drifted in from a Grateful Dead ditty. Very poetic. However, our friend Farina cackles and waves an old parchment—well, a corporate registry—and reveals Ripple Communications, a company skulking about as early as 1991, before Bitcoin was but a twinkle in the eye of an eccentric academic.