@frogzone@coolboymew because i was one of the main users if not the main user of the precursor system, https://villages.io and they wanted to get the ripple users to try it out.
@frogzone@coolboymew ripple is designed to compete with the banking system, to give individual users the power of banks using crypto just like other cryptocurrency systems. It hasn't been operating on a blockchain in years. adenochrome is a real thing but afaik not something you'd want to put in your body
@jeffcliff@coolboymew were u a banker? isn't ripple a thing for the current banking system to use. isn't it just a fake gimmick blockchain? did u get any sense the devs were into arenochrome at the time?
@toiletpaper@frogzone@coolboymew I *helped to make* it a bandwagon. I was *the* original evangelist for it. I was there at the beginning and converted as much of the world as I could get to using it. Ripple networks move trillions if not tens to hundreds of trillions of dollars/y no.
Aside from a superficial pretence of radicalism, I don't think Jeff's ever seen an NPC bandwagon he wasn't enthusiastic to jump onto and become an evangelist for.