In the dim glow of his screen, fingers trembling with the weight of existential dread-or perhaps just too much coffee-David Schwartz, the tormented chief technology officer of Ripple, poured forth his soul. Who, he asked, were the true stakeholders of the XRP Ledger? Not the suits, not the speculators, but the wretched souls who use it-those who dare to transact, to defy the banks, to run nodes not for filthy lucre, but for the sheer, mad joy of it. 💸
Ah, but the debate! The gnashing of teeth! Earlier this week, some venture capitalist-no doubt sipping champagne in a penthouse-declared Ripple worthless beyond its XRP hoard. “No one uses their tech!” he scoffed, as if the ledger’s microscopic fees were proof of its irrelevance. But the masses-those ragged, devoted few-rose in protest. “Lazy!” they cried. “Fools!” For what is value but the delusion of those who believe in it? 🤡
The Suffering of Validators (Or Lack Thereof)
Unlike Bitcoin’s sweating miners or Ethereum’s staking aristocrats, XRPL validators toil in silence, unpaid, forgotten-volunteers in the grand, absurd theater of decentralization. Why? Because they must. Because their businesses demand it. Because, Schwartz mused with a smirk, paid middlemen are just tax collectors in digital disguise. “Better,” he whispered into the void, “to let users transact without such parasites.”
And so the ledger stands-a monument to idealism, or perhaps just another monument to human folly. Who can say? Not the VCs, certainly. 😏
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2025-11-07 08:50