Since everybody seems to be talking about XRP, I decided to read into it a little bit. It's not something I've ever given a half a fuck about.

While there are many issues with XRP and Ripple, I found it interesting that there are only "150+" validators..

Apparently costs nothing to run a validator, so why are there so few?

They claim Ripple only runs one single validator, I can't find any proof of that and it can't really be verified.

I went to the list of validators and clicked through a bunch of the associated domains to see who's running them.

The vast majority came back as 404 errors lol

I also noticed a lot of .edu sites and quite a few phishing websites 🤡