XRP co-developer Arthur Britto has reappeared after years of web silence, logging into his X account that was created in 2011 however confirmed no tweets till yesterday.
He has posted a single emoji, which instantly went viral, gaining tens of millions of impressions.
Ripple CTO David Schwartz commented on the return of his XRP co-developer, staying, “I can confirm this was not a hack or compromise.”
Britto is one in all XRP’s co-architects. Not like Ripple’s extra well-known insiders like Schwartz, Brad Garlinghouse, or Chris Larsen, nonetheless, Britto largely stayed out of the general public eye.
He has prevented interviews, public appearances, and social media for years.
Arthur Britto and XRP to 7.5 billion individuals
One in every of Britto’s uncommon public statements on XRP forecasted super upside. “XRP must be scalable to accommodate 7.5 billion people,” he wrote in 2017.
Britto believed that XRP had the flexibility to by some means supplant many facets of the worldwide monetary system and accommodate billions of customers on-chain.
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Curiously, there’s rudimentary hypothesis and a considerably humorous suggestion that Britto and Schwartz are the identical individual.
In any case, it’s attention-grabbing to notice that Britto solely follows two individuals on X: Roger Ver, and the CEO of Ripple subsidiary Customary Custody, Jack McDonald.
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