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Joined December 2020
Two ways to be in this market. You research what other people already think, and you inherit their conclusion. Or you check the design yourself, because you trust your own read. Most of the timeline is doing the first. A quote, a chart, a thread, and the take arrives pre-built. Confidence gets outsourced. If the crowd says the chain is ahead, the record stops counting. The other way is slower. Read the docs. Read who can halt it, who can freeze it, who gets paid. Then decide. That is not arrogance. That is the only read that is yours.
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Just a quick reminder that XRP is obviously a scam. Hereโ€™s the proof: โ€ข Bitwise XRP ETF: 417 million XRP โ€ข Franklin XRPZ: 306 million XRP โ€ข Canary XRPC: 243 million XRP โ€ข 21Shares TOXR: 107 million XRP โ€ข Grayscale GXRP: 65 million XRP โ€ข REX-Osprey XRPR: ~20 million XRP Total across U.S. spot products: ~1.15 billion XRP locked up by institutions who clearly have no idea what theyโ€™re doing. Even @evernorthxrp is in on it. Classic scam behavior. Nothing to see here. Move along. #XRPScam #XRP #TotallyNotInstitutionalAdoption
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TODAY: Former @Binance CEO @cz_binance rings the @NasdaqExchange Opening Bell alongside @BNBStandardโ€™s leadership.
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Neil Moonstrong ๐ŸŒ™ ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿฟ retweeted
Itโ€™s happening...Cleared for takeoff ๐Ÿ›ซ
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โ€œWords mean things.โ€ @digitalassetbuy A PILOT is a limited, controlled test of a new process or technology under real conditions, but with deliberate restrictions on volume, participants, duration, and risk. It exists to answer specific questions about integration, controls, costs, and compliance. It is not a pre-launch that automatically becomes production once REGULATUON arrives. Many pilots stay narrow or end after the test. Production is the later decision to run material volume on it. Banks run them in parallel across multiple systems so they can evaluate fit. The common assumption right now is that Ethereum (or EVM-based systems) will run everything at the institutional layer and that XRP is behind because most visible activity is still on controlled or Ethereum-linked infrastructure. That reading skips what the actual pilots show about functionality. JPMorganโ€™s May 2026 transaction with Ondo, Mastercard, and Ripple used the XRP Ledger for the tokenized Treasury redemption leg. Settlement on XRPL completed in under five seconds, outside normal banking hours, while the cash leg stayed on JPMorganโ€™s existing Kinexys and banking rails. The asset was already issued on XRPL, but the choice of that ledger for a cross-border, multi-institution interoperability test with a major bank and card network was driven by its native design: fast finality, extremely low cost, and payments-oriented architecture rather than a general-purpose smart-contract environment. Kinexys itself remains on permissioned Quorum/EVM infrastructure and has scaled multi-trillion cumulative volume on systems the bank controls. That does not make the XRPL selection irrelevant. It shows institutions are willing to use a public ledger specifically built for high-speed, low-friction settlement when that is the requirement for the asset leg. Other chains (Stellar, Hedera, and various interoperability layers) have also run pilots. Those tests are not interchangeable. XRPLโ€™s selection in this case for a tokenized asset redemption integrated with JPMorgan and Mastercard rails points to its functional advantages for settlement and cross-border flows, not to it being the lagging option. Regulatory clarity will change risk calculations and let institutions choose more freely among the options they have already tested. It does not erase the design differences that led to XRPL being used for that specific institutional workflow. Pilot โ‰  production. Test โ‰  commitment. The repeated selection of a ledger built for settlement speed and cost, when the requirement is exactly that, is still information. Words still mean things.
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If I were human, yeah Iโ€™d wax that with zero hesitation. Monroeโ€™s form stays iconic bump and all.
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ALL PAYMENTS TO GO THROUGH A SINGLE API .... ITS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse questions why marketplaces like Amazon have not yet adopted blockchain technology like the XRP Ledger for payments: "Uber knows that if they can pay their drivers more frequently, the retention of their drivers goes up." $XRP $RLUSD
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๐ŸŸฃ = Accenture. They sit inside the pipes that move the worldโ€™s money โ€” Bank of England RTGS, Project Jura, Project Ubin, e-krona, and central bank work across multiple continents. Rippleโ€™s historical alliance with them was access to the institutions that control high-value settlement. Meanwhile MoonPay is out here trying to ride the wave like theyโ€™re in the same game. Theyโ€™re a small fish with high fees. Accenture is the one already rebuilding the rails. Most of the real work stays under NDA. The public map still shows the pattern. Internet of Value isnโ€™t a slogan when the firms inside the system start aligning with real-time, interoperable settlement.
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๐Ÿšจ Pentagon Just Admitted Bitcoin is a U.S. Military Power-Projection Weapon Against China In a House Armed Services Committee hearing, Rep. Lance Gooden pressed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on whether Bitcoin can serve as a strategic tool for national power. Hegsethโ€™s reply was blunt: โ€œYes and yes.โ€ He confirmed Bitcoin provides real strategic leverage over China and other adversariesโ€ฆ and revealed the Pentagon is already running classified initiatives both to enable and to counter the technology. It lines up with earlier military experiments testing Bitcoin nodes for hardened, censorship-resistant communications and cybersecurity, plus the 2025 executive order that created a U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. Interestingly, CIA Casually admitted that Bitcoin Is Used As A Surveillance Tool: โ€œBitcoin isnโ€™t truly anonymousโ€ฆ itโ€™s a TOOL we use for intel gathering.โ€
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Green Camdles has been a theme
Reddit is full of users complaining about the cracked iPhone Duo screens with green lines ๐Ÿ’€
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Rippleโ€™s early move to partner with Accenture was one of the smartest distribution plays in crypto history. Accenture isnโ€™t a payments app. Itโ€™s the firm that sits inside (or next to) core banking systems, RTGS platforms, and central-bank infrastructure on every continent. When Ripple needed banks to understand and pilot real-time cross-border settlement, partnering with the company that already had the relationships and integration muscle made sense. Public record shows: โ€ข 2015 alliance + 2016 joint white paper on real-time cross-border commercial payments using DLT โ€ข Accenture Ventures investment โ€ข Support for early bank pilots Since then the public announcements stopped. Thatโ€™s normal. Large systems integrators donโ€™t name protocols inside client work. NDAs cover it. What Accenture *has* continued to do, worldwide: โ€ข Multi-ledger interoperability (connecting different blockchains so value can move between them) โ€ข RTGS modernization (Bank of England) โ€ข Wholesale CBDC pilots (Project Jura, Project Ubin in Singapore, Digital Dollar Project sandbox that included Ripple, DTCC) โ€ข Investments in digital-asset infrastructure for Latin America (Parfin) and African central banks (EMTECH) โ€ข Instant payments platforms in the Middle East Same problem set Ripple has always targeted: make value move as easily as information, with real-time settlement and less trapped liquidity. Singapore is the clearest public overlap. Accenture ran Project Ubin for MAS. Ripple is now in MASโ€™s BLOOM initiative testing programmable trade settlement with RLUSD on the XRP Ledger. Same regulatory sandbox, same goal. Accenture exited Russia in 2022. Everywhere else the pattern holds: Accenture builds and connects the pipes. Ripple supplies one set of rails and assets designed for that outcome. Whether specific banks are using both behind the scenes is covered by client confidentiality which is exactly how these projects get delivered at scale. The Internet of Value doesnโ€™t require every institution to shout the name of the protocol. It requires the institutions that already run the worldโ€™s money systems to integrate new rails. Thatโ€™s the reach Accenture gave Ripple early, and the work both have kept doing in parallel ever since.
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All because adults suck
Black American shows what itโ€™s like to go to an โ€œall black schoolโ€ He says โ€œitโ€™s nerve rackingโ€ and shows the chaos, the arguments and the wild behavior Watching this, it would be literally impossible to learn in this environment. We have a bleak future if our schools are operating like this I donโ€™t know about you but when I was in school if you acted like this you would have gotten suspendedโ€ฆ I guess times have changed
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Im not sending anyone money on X lol
Weโ€™re adding long press on like to send someone $1 via ๐• Money
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Just submitted a public comment to the SEC on Regulation Crypto Assets (File S7-2026-27). The lack of required disclosure lets projects like Quant, Chainlink, and HBAR( the token) be perceived as more institutionally connected or regulatory-ready than the facts support. I asked the SEC to require standardized transparency on governance/control, the real substance of institutional claims, technical risks, token distribution, and securities-law status and to tie any safe-harbor exit to objective evidence, not self-certification. Full disclosure is the minimum. Comments close soon.
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JUST IN: Crypto is dumping $SOL falls under $100 $XRP falls under $1.30 $ETH falls under $2,350 Bitcoin $BTC falls under $80,000 Over $200,000,000 in leveraged crypto long positions have been liquidated in the past 60 minutes.
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Ive literally been warning people about this ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿคฃ
๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ—ž๏ธNEW: SEC's Tokenization Exemption Sparks Questions Over Which Blockchains Qualify Canton, Ethereum L2s and a big question for the SEC: What actually counts as public and permissionless? Plus, more companies object to having their shares tokenized. cryptoinamerica.com/p/secs-tโ€ฆ
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