I missed the part about satoshi joining the #xrparmy tho
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It wasn’t rlly like that… Xrp wasn’t even called xrp back then it was called ripple and it ran on the rippled protocol
However, the website was an online currency exchange they mimicked a forex style exchange
The “babel fish” a lá “The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy”
Funded by opencoin, which were all the OG bitcoiners
Incredible 
That’s ripple… that’s actually not the same. It is but it’s not ripple and opencoin/rippled split
"Incredible" is exactly the right word for this.