What if I told you the man behind XRP used to build tech for the NSA?
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.#CEXvsDEX101 #xPrisTrade
