And that the XRP Ledger wasn’t born in a garage…

…but inside the same machine it now threatens to replace.

Read this entire thread before they wipe it.

1/ David Schwartz isn’t just Ripple’s CTO.

He’s one of the original architects of the XRP Ledger.

But before any of that, he held a job where truth goes to disappear:

Contractor for the U.S. National Security Agency.

That’s where he built distributed systems.

The kind used for surveillance.

And eventually — for consensus.

2/ In 1991, he filed a patent.

U.S. Patent 5025368.

Title:

“Computer System for Distributed Consensus”

Years before Bitcoin.

Years before blockchain was a word.

He built the framework of what would later become XRPL — and maybe more.

The patent expired quietly in 2011.

Just when XRP began.

3/ Let’s talk XRP origins.

While Bitcoin maxis were obsessed with mining, Schwartz and his team had another vision:

A consensus protocol that didn’t waste energy, didn’t take hours, and didn’t need miners.

XRPL was designed with federal-grade logic:

•Immutable ledger

•Near-instant finality

•Global liquidity movement

4/ He didn’t do it alone.

Arthur Britto — the phantom founder.

Jed McCaleb — ex-Mt. Gox, master of early liquidity games.

Together, they coded something Bitcoin couldn’t be:

•Scalable

•Governable

•Bank-compliant

Not a currency.

A financial nervous system.

5/ Schwartz doesn’t behave like a crypto bro.

He doesn’t hype.

He drops breadcrumbs.

He once said:

“I worked on a system that was like Bitcoin… in 2004.”

That’s 5 years before the Bitcoin whitepaper.

And he said it under oath.

In court.

Where lies are punished.

6/ The XRP Ledger went live in 2012.

No ICO. No miner pre-mine.

Just 100 billion tokens, minted instantly.

Why?

Because it wasn’t meant to be “bought.”

It was designed to be used — by governments, banks, and corridors no one talks about.

This was never retail tech.

7/ Ask yourself:

Why would an NSA-grade engineer spend a decade building a protocol that the media ignores…

…while central banks quietly partner with it behind the curtain?

Because XRP was never about attention.

It was about infrastructure.

It was about replacing the rails.

8/ They won’t tell you who David Schwartz really is.

Because if they did, the entire crypto narrative collapses.

He’s not a founder.

He’s a spook turned architect.

He didn’t leave the system.

He rewired it from the inside.

And now it’s about to go live.

9/ The truth isn’t loud.

It’s buried.

In expired patents.

In early commits.

In corridors guarded by clearance levels.

But you?

You’re starting to see it.

Follow the ones who dig deeper.

The ones who aren’t here for hype.

But for power.