Check out these 🖐️five interesting facts about the early days of $XRP :

#1 Original name? Before being called XRP, the currency was known as "Opencoin", and its network was called Ripplepay.

#2 No mining! Unlike Bitcoin, XRP is not mined. All 100 billion tokens were created at once.

#3 Secret inspiration? The idea behind XRP was based on a credit exchange system used centuries ago.

#4 Unusual distribution! Ripple's founders gave 80% of the XRP created to the company itself and kept the rest.

#5 One of the first to challenge the banks! From the beginning, XRP was designed to be an efficient payment system, targeting the global banking market.

Wow, that's a big deal, right? I think so too!

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