Ripple CTO David Schwartz addresses recent speculation on XRP Ledger
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U.Today is not liable for any financial losses incurred while trading cryptocurrencies. Conduct your own research by contacting financial experts before making any investment decisions. We believe that all content is accurate as of the date of publication, but certain offers mentioned may no longer be available., Jed McCaleb and Arthur Britto — were attracted by Bitcoin but aware of the waste associated with mining. They aimed to develop a more sustainable way of sending value. By June 2012, Schwartz, McCaleb and Britto had completed code development, and the ledger was ready., once XRP Ledger was live, 80% of XRP was gifted to a new company called NewCoin, which set out to develop use cases for the digital asset. Shortly thereafter, they were joined by Chris Larsen, and the group started the company NewCoin in September 2012 . The XRPL founders contributed 80 billion XRP to the company Ripple, which has since placed the majority in escrow.to an X user who claimed that"fair and equal distribution doesn’t need to be an afterthought," saying:"I don't see anything unfair about the people who created something keeping as much of the value as a free market will give them. Using consensus in an adversarial way has fundamental trade-offs and what makes XRPL different is that it doesn't do that." I don't see anything unfair about the people who created something keeping as much of the value as a free market will give them. Using consensus in an adversarial way has fundamental trade-offs and what makes XRPL different is that it doesn't do that.Another X user had asked:"Unless OpenCoin collapsed, which was founded after the XRP Ledger was created, correct? But why did the plan to gift it to a company or entity for distribution came so late and not when the project was being drafted? Its a natural thought process step i'd guess."Schwartz responded:"I don't trust my memory on this and I don't have very good records. I wasn't all that involved in the initial distribution. We know from the ledger agreement that the distribution was agreed to on or before September 17, 2012." The Ripple CTO then shared the agreement signed at the time to back up this claim.As regards the XRPL, Schwartz noted that even though there were breaking changes in late December 2012, validations did not"really" work until January 2013.7 Apr. Agenda Unveiled for HK Web3 Festival 2025: What’s Next for Hong Kong’s Regulation on Virtual Assets?7 Apr. Agenda Unveiled for HK Web3 Festival 2025: What’s Next for Hong Kong’s Regulation on Virtual Assets?
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