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🤡XRP: A TROJAN HORSE FOR CENTRALISED CONTROL

{👇🏽why it’s a shitcoin👇🏽}

Bitcoin stands as the symbol of decentralization and individual sovereignty. XRP, embodies everything Bitcoin was designed to dismantle: centralization, corporate manipulation, and reliance on the legacy financial system.

🚨 CENTRALISATION AT ITS CORE

🚩Handpicked Validators: Ripple controls the network through Unique Node Lists (UNLs), giving them de facto power to manipulate the system.

🚩Validator Manipulation Risk: The reliance on UNLs creates systemic vulnerabilities—if Ripple-affiliated validators are compromised or collude, the entire network is at risk.

🚩Clawback Features: Validators can implement centralized controls like clawbacks without user consent, a direct contradiction to decentralization.

🚩Massive Token Hoard: Ripple holds 50% of XRP’s total supply, enabling unchecked market manipulation and centralized control over price dynamics.

💼 CORPORATE PUPPETRY FOR BANKING

🚩Pro-Banking Agenda (not pro-people): XRP facilitates cross-border transactions for banks, aligning with the legacy system Bitcoin seeks to disrupt.

🚩Ripple’s Iron Grip: Ripple Labs maintains near-total control over XRP’s development, governance, and direction.

🚩KYC/AML Compliance: XRP enforces Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) policies, betraying Bitcoin’s pseudonymity and censorship resistance. With Bitcoin you can min free KYC sound money.

🚩Inflation Loopholes: Ripple’s ability to release XRP from escrow mimics inflation mechanisms, eroding long-term value—another betrayal of Bitcoin’s hard cap principles.

📉 WEAK ECONOMICS

🚩Pre-Mined Supply: XRP’s pre-mining undermines fairness, contrasting Bitcoin’s transparent mining model.

🚩Lack of Resilience: The federated consensus algorithm doesn’t incentivize widespread participation, making the network vulnerable to censorship or validator collapse.

🚩Opaque Escrow Sales: Ripple’s discretionary release of XRP from escrow erodes trust, akin to fiat controlled by central banks.

🚩Stagnant Performance: XRP armies have been waiting for almost a decade to reclaim all-time highs, while Bitcoin consistently outperforms and innovates.

🚩Unrealistic Price Hype: XRP price predictions like $100+ are absurd, requiring a $10 trillion market cap—an economic impossibility.

🛑 REGULATORY, ETHICAL AND TRUST ISSUES

🚩SEC Lawsuit: XRP’s classification as a security highlights its centralized, corporate-driven nature.

🚩Conflict of Interest: Ripple executives’ personal XRP holdings align their incentives with short-term price manipulation, not the long-term health of the network.

🚩Legal Manipulation: Ripple’s millions spent on legal battles show it prioritizes protecting corporate profits over decentralization or innovation.

🚩Surveillance-Ready: XRP supports tools for financial surveillance and lays the groundwork for Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs)—an Orwellian nightmare Bitcoin stands against.

❌ FUNDAMENTAL CONTRADICTIONS

🚩Failure to Decentralize: XRP perpetuates centralized power by collaborating with banks and financial institutions, reinforcing the very systems Bitcoin seeks to abolish.

🚩No Unique Use Case: There’s nothing XRP accomplishes that Bitcoin doesn’t do better, faster, and with true decentralization. The Chinese, the Russians and the #BRICS already developed and started using Swift alternatives.

🚩Centralized Control: Ripple’s massive XRP holdings and influence on #governance contradict the foundational principles of cryptocurrency.

XRP is a centralized #shitcoin tool masquerading as a #cryptocurrency. It prioritizes banking corporate profits, undermines trust, and betrays the core principles of decentralization and financial freedom.

💡 #Bitcoin doesn’t need permission, partnerships, or propaganda. #XRP, on the other hand, is nothing without Ripple’s control.

Bottom Line:

There Is No F Second Best.

#BitcoinEducation

Well said!

I pathetically owned some and sold at the bottom and don’t regret a thing.

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Admittedly, I really enjoyed this timely discussion with nostr:npub16le69k9hwapnjfhz89wnzkvf96z8n6r34qqwgq0sglas3tgh7v4sp9ffxj.

Danny asks great questions, with intelligent follow-up points for clarification… and does both with a chill vibe.

The What Bitcoin Did podcast is in great hands! ⚡️

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This is very very good. I listen to your logic and completely understand it and agree with it and don’t feel like a completely confused retard.

Yeah. I wouldn’t trust myself if I was one 💩

Have you ever had a prickly uneasy feeling about MSTRs execution of this strategy?

People look healthy and happy in January.

Some of you may be interested in this webinar coming up on January 22nd with Samantha McLemore. Samantha took over from Bill Miller. I enjoy her perspective on the markets and of course love that they have a large btc position. Zoom registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OQNekbAhS6-OQiYv18wM9A#/registration