Last week Ripple announced DBS (largest bank in Singapore (the Switzerland of Asia)) and Franklin Templeton ($1.5 trillion AUM) using RLUSD as a liquid, stable and compliant exchange mechanism for tokenized assets in lending and trading use cases and builtout basis of an on-chain repo market on the XRPL. This week, Securitizeadded RLUSD as a new offramp for BlackRock's tokenized BUIDL and VanEck’s tokenized VBILL funds, for 24/7/365 redemption. OUSG itself is already minted on the XRPL as well with XRP being included in the key tech stack schematic given by ONDO, which included XRP, ZRO, SUI, APT, SOL, ETH, and BTC. These announcements come 2 months before Ripple even has their invite-only Swell Conference. I wonder what more will come by then and what will be announced there such that they didn't move it up or hold off to announce this! Notably, recently JP Morgan joined Swell as a speaker. So did Coinbase, who has been specifically resistant to XRP and their joining feels similar to Circle's new inclusion of XRP. This happens just after Ripple were asked by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to go to 10 Downing Street and meet with the UK Chancellor equivalent of Bessent for a crypto roundtable shaping US-UK blockchain future in a £150bn "Tech Prosperity Deal," forming the "Transatlantic Taskforce for Markets of the Future" to drive crypto adoption and foster cooperation (saying this because they were joined by Coinbase and Circle (also Bank of America, Barclays, and CITI):https://ripple.com/ripple-press/ripple-and-securitize-enable-rlusd-smart-sontract-functionality-for-blackrock-buidl-and-vaneck-vbill-tokenized-funds/US-UK meeting:https://www.theblock.co/post/371674/us-uk-team-crypto-focused-task-force-guide-future-regulationshttps://coincentral.com/us-and-uk-create-joint-task-force-for-crypto-regulation-alignment/ONDO/Ripple video picrel is from, with the ONDO Founder and CEO himself drawing it:https://x.com/UpholdInc/status/1953210977790386548
>through securitize
bullish xrp
>>60980086
Like clockwork
>>60980144What am I looking at here
>>60980086>Current speakers of note at Swell include (can always be added to across 2 months):-Chair and CEO of NASDAQ-Director of Digital Assets at BlackRock-Chief Product and Innovation officer at BNY-Head of Innovation at Franklin Templeton-Global Head of Digital Assets, Treasury & Trade Solutions at CITI-Head of Fidelity Digital Asset Management at Fidelity-CEO of Bitwise-Head of Markets Digital Assets at JP Morgan-Global Head of Cryptocurrency Products at CME Group (Chicago Mercantile Exchange)-Managing Director at Moody's-SMD and Global Head of Cash Business and Securities Lending at State Street-Managing Director and Head of Digital Assets, Institutional Banking Group at DBS-Chief Information Security Officer at Coinbase-CEO of the Blockchain Association
>>60980167The Linky that keeps shitting up /xsg/ was doxxed to be an unironic paid Link 'ambassador' dalit posting from India.
>>60980086Tumor intensifies!
>>60980170More like>Current speakers of note at Swell include (can always be added to across 2 months):-A wax statue of the Chair and CEO of NASDAQ-A wax statue of the Director of Digital Assets at BlackRock-A wax statue of the Chief Product and Innovation officer at BNY-A wax statue of the Head of Innovation at Franklin Templeton-A wax statue of the Global Head of Digital Assets, Treasury & Trade Solutions at CITI-A wax statue of the Head of Fidelity Digital Asset Management at Fidelity-A wax statue of the CEO of Bitwise-A wax statue of the Head of Markets Digital Assets at JP Morgan-A wax statue of the Global Head of Cryptocurrency Products at CME Group (Chicago Mercantile Exchange)-A wax statue of the Managing Director at -Moody's-A wax statue of the SMD and Global Head of Cash Business and Securities Lending at State Street-A wax statue of the Managing Director and Head of Digital Assets, Institutional Banking Group at DBS-A wax statue of the Chief Information Security Officer at Coinbase-A wax statue of the CEO of the Blockchain Association
>>60980178>The Linky>singularI know at least 5 people who regular frequent /xsg/ and one of them is me but that image is incorrect they are confusing and mixing up different people
>>60980113What are you talking about? Securitize facilitating it makes it that much more bullish, especially given that the SEC Chair is (or was, unsure if stepped down since entering SEC) on their advsiory board of Securitize alongside Ripple's VP of Central Bank Engagement. This is MASSIVELY good and literally building out the fulfillment of what the ONDO founder himself drew on the board in the video he made with Ripple.
>>60980170
>>60980192XRPL is least used chain out of any ONDO integration.
>>60980167The guy who obsession-posts the bald guy (after literally years of posting similarly retarded non-argument cope literally day and night in every Ripple thread and starting a half-dozen threads a day to fud it) after failing to make it a meme is unironically an Indian Chainlink service provider. Lol
>>60980207I don't know, somethins just doesn't make sense, reeks more of someone false flagging for shits and giggles.
>>60980144>>60980086>>60980170>gish gallop>haha gottem lul
>>60980182Cope>>60980190Retard. We aren't saying that he is the only person who posts, we are saying he is a specific, extremely identifiable and consistent poster. We know many of you are obsessed. Your influencers literally talk about XRP more than they do Link. We never even think of you outside responding to the insufferability of your cancer directed at us. You can't even keep a general alive for a single thread and would cease to have any presence at all outside parasiting other coins and projects. Your entire thesis is completely incoherent and literally tech illiterate. You are in an actual coin cult and act and post and think indistinguishable from the ways leftists and jews do.
>>60980226I'm a bit puzzled here. Who do you think I am?
>>60980226
>>60980226>We never even think of youExcept Thomas/Adem is a xerpie.He's probably THE most prolific spammer in 4chan history at this point.
>>60980223Literally isn't gish galloping. Learn literally 101 reasoning. The same redditor faggots always use the same 4ish informal fallacies wrong like they are arbitrary rhetorical devices that just deliver automatic argumentative supremacy. It is ALWAYS gish gallop, strawman, ad hominem, red herring, and (not a fallacy but familial) word salad. Midwits are insufferable.>>60980194Let's see Chainlink's token value accumulation vs. its company buildout 4 years ago and how sustainable its network is off revenues now. Lol>>60980197It is also the lowest volume RLUSD network vs. Eth. XRP has lower liquidity right now and was held back early on while Eth established early build as sort of the beta network. XRP now has an EVM and RLUSD is a siphon that will in part change that. If you think institutions will continue to use a more expensive and less efficient chain that requires additional layers of counterparty trust to be remotely useful rather than something that is more liquid to broader assets, with native compliance features, in place of it, invest accordingly!>>60980219Hello samefag. Lol
>>60980240If Ripple are "locked out of the White House," why did the Treasury Secretary take them with them to the UK to form the Transatlantic partnership? Why was team SirGay MIA?
>>60980242We literally aren't talking about the same person.
>>60980296You said "we" (xerpies) never even think of "you" (linkies).
>>60980278>Let's see Chainlink's token value accumulationHoly cope. Swells speaker list doesn't seem that great now does it?>XRP now has an EVMWhich no one builds on.
>>60980278I'm getting more confused by the minute, you gotta walk me through it completely if you want me to understand
>>60980302We literally don't. Your top influencer accounts endlessly spam and you guys raid every thread. Ours never even mentioned you until the recent paid posting campaign that really failed and we virtually only make threads referencing you except when you spam shit us. I never even post in terms of you (with exception of possibly like 4-5 times literally) except in threads you spam mentioning XRP which is literally always at a 3-1 ratio vs. ones we make of you. There is one lone faggot for every group which breaks the trend but he is not demonstration of it. The Indian CLL service provider is a concentrated expression of what is prevalent. Our own biggest spammers are in our own fucking general, with exception of maybe one, and as a base group of people we never talk about link unless to dunk on you faggots. You lose EVERY time and still instigate it and then pretend in the next thread the prior points weren't already blown out. It is beyond literally insane. I do understand how you would have a hard time with the "not all x" thinking outside generalizations concept though, given what you invest in. Lol
>>60980338>>60980338>We literally don't. Your top influencer accounts endlessly spam and you guys raid every thread. Ours never even mentioned you until the recent paid posting campaign that really failed and we virtually only make threads referencing you except when you spam shit us. I never even post in terms of you (with exception of possibly like 4-5 times literally) except in threads you spam mentioning XRP which is literally always at a 3-1 ratio vs. ones we make of you. There is one lone faggot for every group which breaks the trend but he is not demonstration of it. The Indian CLL service provider is a concentrated expression of what is prevalent. Our own biggest spammers are in our own fucking general, with exception of maybe one, and as a base group of people we never talk about link unless to dunk on you faggots. You lose EVERY time and still instigate it and then pretend in the next thread the prior points weren't already blown out. It is beyond literally insane. I do understand how you would have a hard time with the "not all x" thinking outside generalizations concept though, given what you invest in. Lol
>>60980144This makes zero sense but wow you LINK haters are creative
>>60980338>We literally don't.See >>60980242Not sure why you posted a whole paragraph of verbal diarrhea.
Can someone please tell me like i'm retarded what the fuck is going on in this thread, that image, who is who etc
>>60980376Its all irrelevant. This has nothing to do with XRPL or XRP, its all on Ethereum. They plan to integrate with XRPL when pigs fly.
>>60980316Link is literally down like 70% from 4 years ago. The network cannot sustain 20% of itself off revenues. Your founder comingled the originally marketed as ringfenced operator rewards and has been dumping directly on the public to fund payrolls in the bloated buildout of his business, bilking from the till and paying out the pittance to keep the grift going. It is literally a fraud exfil scheme of your own savings and corporate paypigism. The speaker list is excellent. You are desperate to try to spin it otherwise becasue you are OBSESSED and REFUSE to accept reality or cope with it. XRP EVM is like 2.5 months old. Lol We don't even have permissioned dex/domains let alone the coming native lending protocol yet and growth is solid, as is institutional demand for XRP (fastest CME contract to ever hit $1B including Eth and Btc (XRP and XRP Micro-futures reached $18.3B notional volume in 4 months), XRPR closed its first day with a volume of $37.75M, making it the number one best "day one" ETF by volume for all of 2025, etc.)). Axelar just launched mXRP, and most institutions (like VivoPower with the crowned prince of Dubai) will likely build their strategy around the coming XRPfi through Flare. You are deliberately missing the buildout forest for the bonzai tree of your own mezmerized delusion being obsessively pruned before you.
>>60980376>who is whoWell q8Wv2Evl is the verbose ripple shill. Look up those words in the catalog if you want the lore.He's a dedicated Link fudder and mentally very challenged, as you can see.
>>60980421Chainlink makes way more than Ripple ever will lol How does Ripple sustain itself? Selling XRP?
>>60980358t. Samefag or one of his compatriots.>>60980366Looping back to a failed argument doesn't work just because you don't know what else to say. Neither does calling something incoherent just because you don't know how to respond to it. Cope.>>60980412Lol DBS and Franklin Templeton are already building out on the XRPL. This recent news adds another piece to the schematic ONDO drew up in the OP pic. The existing base liquidity in the market in general is currently in Eth. You need a bridge for the liquidity and to accomodate its current state. They are literally already doing this elsewhere and beginning it here. It is a tap directly to it. But like said, if you think institutions will deliberately choose to go with fragmented, L2 requiring, counterparty risk implicit ledger with fragmented even higher layer compliance features, as opposed to something that does it all natively in a standardized way regardless of who or where it is being used, for literally no reason other than that it was the precursor testnet for defi before institutions were even legally able to get very involved, invest accordingly! Lol
>>60980457>Lol DBS and Franklin Templeton are already building out on the XRPL.No theyre not, theyre going to tokenize a fund on XRPL that already exists on every other chain lol. Theyre not building anything on XRPL lmao.
>>60980431Projection. I literally never (again, maybe 4-5 times ever) post in a single link thread that doesn't mention XRP. I reply to the same probably 2-3 linkfags who spam the same shit they know fails then spam again across literally dozens of successive obsessive, probably paid to be posted threads.>>60980444Ripple objectively have a much higher revenue than Chainlink. Look it up. And they haven't sold tokens to the public in 6 years, let alone dumped operator rewards on the public in a grift.
>>60980469>Ripple objectively have a much higher revenue than Chainlink.Are you counting XRP sales?>And they haven't sold tokens to the public in 6 yearsLMAO!!!!!!
>>60980469You posted more words about Link in a single thread than I did in eight years.
>>60980086I'm literraly an atheist, would i make it ?
>>60980466You are wrong. It is a Singapore specific fund launched in partnership with the largest bank in Singapore. FT have other funds on their broader Benji platform launched on several chains, but this specific to the XRPL and per DBS (the Singaporean megabank) next phase is building out repo market capability using RLUSD as collateral, which is the whole thing-get institutions to buildout collateral/liquidity and settlement operations on ledger and everything else basically always necessarily follows outside some extreme technical benefit to fragment that doesn't really exist here.
>>60980529Wrong. Theyre not building anything on XRPL. Theyre selling a product on it, not using it for internal processes.
>>60980480Ripple doesn't sell to the public, they sell directly to institutional investors and have exclusively since May 2020. Chanlink dumps directly on the public and sells node operator rewards while doing so. The entire function and continued operation of the network is wholly dependent on the bloat of the fraud not blowing up because the network would crash without the pittance paid to it. This is not true for the XRPL and Ripple. Including all sales and other revenues, Ripple's revenue dwarfs Chainlink's, objectively inarguably.
You cripplefags are so much worse than linkcucks, at least the latter got shit in the pipeline, you're just filthy baboons clinging on to some fantasy, pitiful.
>>60980549>they sell directly to institutional investors and have exclusively since May 2020LMAO. This is literally why they were sued.
>>60980511Again, check the OP. I almost literally (4-5 exceptions) post in a thread about link that doesn't mention XRP/Ripple, and I literally just ALWAYS argue the actual points themselves until you all, invariably, run from argument to cope and fling shit and do every gay rhetorical game imaginable and then critique me for posting multiple times instead of just giving you the retarded satisfaction cope of feeling like you really shut me down with your most recent trite zinger or repackaging of the same fud that was objectively provably never true. Lol I really don't care, I find it fun and fucking hate liars and disingenuous greed faggots and think of it as a service. It takes very little new effort because you all always say the same things or just do really cringe rhetoric to bury and avoid the actual technical discussion, basically ANYTHING to avoid having your own technology described or thesis lain bare. Lol
>>60980562This is LITERALLY not why they were sued. The judge ruled certain institutional sales were securities contracts due to marketing material etc. They completely restructured their ODL product through exchanges and haven't sold directly in since May 2020. The judge ruled programmatic sales were non-securities offerings, a HUGE win for the entire industry that was completely uncertain which is literally INSANE you are not grateful to them for. Brad and Chris personally were named as attached parties in the suit alongside Ripple and were told they could settle and said they would only if they got clarity XRP was not a security; it wasn't given so they spent $150M litigating it and won. They won their lawsuit, paid a penalty on a specific timespan of specific institutional sales and got XRP declared a non-security in the process.
>>60980548They are LITERALLY building it on it exclusively and then building out repo on it. Here is the release from them themselves:https://archive.is/9uGdCFortuitously, the XRPL devs are currently building a native lending protocol, which alongside a native dex/AMM and compliance features, stacked against competitor chains that require fragmented non-standard, inefficient compliance/liquidity/etc...good luck to competitors. Lol
>>60980639Why tf was the DBS actual link flagged as spam? I had to post an archive because even broken it would not post.
>>60980639>Fortuitously, the XRPL devs are currently building a native lending protocolOnly around 10 years too late.
If Ripple and XRP were not solid as fuck, Ripple would not be buying its pre-IPO stock back at $250 per share. It’s all anyone has to know. They know it will be worth more in the future and want it back so they can reap the profits inside of accredited investors and outside institutions. Money talks and BS walks.
*instead*
>>60980681Not remotely. Function follows liquidity operations. Institutions are barely even legally able to begin build yet and are largely still blocked. This rolls out NATIVELY just when they need it. Why would they choose to use a fragmented, counterparty intensive, centralized service when they could do it at the protocol level on a liquidity op optimized network with built-in compliance etc. everything already mentioned? It would be choosing to start with built-in frictions for internal ops and partners who could all just instead be default standardized.
>>60980681BTW Vance and Trump love Ripple. Trump has been regularly meeting with them since his first term where he met with them for several hours, through his recent campaign post election etc.
>>60980803>>60980681If you watch the full video, Vance had just left stage and beelined directly to Brad before anyone else.
>>60980811>Vance had just left stage and beelined directly to Brad before anyone elseHOLY MOLY!!
>>60980828Again, incredibly corny meme that has zero basis in reality. Vance sought Brad. SirGay acted like he was distracted and casual form the absolute outer edge while transparently trying to inch closer to Trump for a photo op picture which everyone around them looked at him weirdly for, which literally went SO embarrassingly that you guys NEVER post the full video and get mad when we do and 3 of you literally tried to make a meme and spam it endlessly suggesting Brad was banned from the White House. Lol Why was Sirgay not invited to the inauguration? Why did he post pictures with Brad at the VP dinner and the highest admin pic he got was with Kennedy while JD posed with Brad AND Stu and literally beelined to them immediately after his speech and shook Brad's hand before anyone else? Brad didn't attend the event because he had other things going on and possibly was meeting with the head of the IMF they have done business with in the past (they are also on their High Level Advisory Group on Fintech (Chainlink are not)) but Ripple were given multiple tickets to attend and he sent 3 of employees to including his CLO who is next to him here and shook Vance's hand then and attended the VP dinner and posted a pic of himself with Vance while the highest up Sirgay got was a picture with RFK (he also posted a pic with Brad Lol). Stu also posted pics meeting with Trump's team during the campaign.
>>60980782>This rolls out NATIVELY just when they need it.This is called being late to the game. Chainlink built everything before hand and waited for them to come. Not wait for them to come then build. No wonder Ripple is so far behind everyone.
>>60980879not reading this slop. By the way, SAB and SBI dropped Ripple and now both use chainlink.https://www.sab.com/en/about-us/newsroom/news-year-2021/sab-goes-live-with-instant-usd-payments-for-corporates-using-ripple-technology/https://www.sbigroup.co.jp/english/company/group/sbirippleasia.htmlnot looking good.
>>60980881Chainlink does not settle value and literally no one is tokenizing on it. CCIP adds 5 minutes of settlement time and is literally 100x slower and costlier than XRP settlement, no exaggeration.>>60980902They are using it for data feeds not settlement. Neither of the things you claimed are true. SBI use XRP in multiple divisions. Every shareholder meeting they present on it and have a subsection of the investor deck dedicated to it. They are Ripple's largest outside shareholder and already use XRP in operations broadly and in their joint organization and just launched this week a cross-liquid savings account that is liquid to their securities division, directly depositing XRP promotional rewards into trad customer wallets and are using RLUSD for stablecoins beginning next year:https://www.sbigroup.co.jp/english/news/pdf/2025/0822_d_en.pdf
>>60980982Picrel^ is their CEO of Global Asset Management like 2 months ago. Picrel in this post is their parent company CEO.
>>60980982>Chainlink does not settle value and literally no one is tokenizing on it. CCIP adds 5 minutes of settlement time and is literally 100x slower and costlier than XRP settlement, no exaggeration.Chainlink CCIP facilitates atomic settlement with any chain connected to CCIP. Banks want to use any chain they want, not force everyone onto a single chain. If this were the case, David Schwartz wouldnt be hyping up wormhole for interoperability. lol>They are using it for data feeds not settlement. Theyre both using every chainlink product, which includes CCIP.>Neither of the things you claimed are true. SBI use XRP in multiple divisions. Every shareholder meeting they present on it and have a subsection of the investor deck dedicated to it. They are Ripple's largest outside shareholder and already use XRP in operations broadly and in their joint organization and just launched this week a cross-liquid savings account that is liquid to their securities division, directly depositing XRP promotional rewards into trad customer wallets and are using RLUSD for stablecoins beginning next year: Literally nothing to do with tokenization because we know who theyre using for that.
>>60980086Im not informed and I did not even read all you wrote but I'm sure this is fake
>>60980982Which is it? You literally say chainlink does not settle and the next sentence they do all of a sudden? You’re a liar and misrepresent basic fundamentals. Nothing you say in this thread can be trusted.
>>60981170>Chainlink does not settle value>CCIP adds 5 minutes of settlement timeThats how you know hes full of shit.
>>60981010Brother, this has been argued AD INFINITUM in dozens of prior threads and the link side has lost on literally every point. XRP using ILP is interoperable-capable to any even hypothetical potential blockchain or traditional network. It is micropayment capable with zero additional fees and underlying settlement network fees payable in any asset chosen, not some randomly inserted toll booth fee with zero other utility that no one wants on their balance sheet. ILP using XRP can settle with full finality in 3-5 seconds for a fraction of a penny, and can scale to the literal hardware limit of trillions of tps w/ micropayments. Additionally it is decentralized with anyone being able to use it and construct its use however they want, offers atomic settlement, and if using Ripple, ODL. CCIP by design requires an additional 5 minutes and costs dollars or cents in toll booth token instead of consistent fractions of pennies paid in anything. Smart contracts will never be as efficient from cost or speed perspective as native settlement.>CCIPYes, as far as the link token goes for DATA, not settlement. CCIP does not use link to settle value. This is literally what I said. >TokenizationLol As mentioned they already signed a MoU with Ripple for stablecoins, which ARE tokenization of currency. Outside that is speculative beyond them continuously saying they are building their strategy around XRP and endorsing and integrating XRP. They definitely are not tokenizing on Chainlink because literally no one is. What point is the pic about XRPL's integration into Wormhole supposed to make?
>>60981170It is what I said. You misunderstanding what I say and then expressing frustration doesn't translate me into having contradicted myself. Lol LINK IS NOT USED FOR SETTLEMENT. CCIP is a platform that offers settlement, never using link to do so. Link is LITERALLY a jewish rent seeking coin that has no purpose but to insert fees into process that doesn't need it (and to fundraise off your savings for the corporate operation and pockets of SirGay).
>>60981206Literal 80 IQ. The link involved process is additive to actual settlement which happens on the respective networks (which are not link). It costs A LOT more than settlement requires and is A LOT slower. See:>>60981206
>>60981211>What point is the pic about XRPL's integration into Wormhole supposed to make?Holy fuck youre so dumb it makes my head hurt. I cant wait for SIBOS.
>>60981270Non-argument cope. Not the first, won't be the last.
>>60981287> ILP using XRP can settle with full finality in 3-5 seconds for a fraction of a penny, and can scale to the literal hardware limit of trillions of tps w/ micropayments.This isnt even true. All your slop has been a non argument, its not reality. Banks don't care that its faster or cheaper, they care more about compliance and security. Literally every bank is testing CCIP with their own private chains not using a public ledger like XRPL. Sorry to break it to you.
>>60980511/biz/ truly mind broke this ripple employee lol
>>60981340You are literally quoting SWIFT's CIO, the same person you guys always quote as an argument from the most biased authority possible giving zero evidence. XRP/Ripple are doing to them what AI/Chat GPT are doing to Google Search's "impenetrable moat." SWIFT weren't even invited to Ripple's Swell-the CIO raged about it a week ago. They also aren't even choosing to attend the open SIBOS event. You haven't addressed a single thing I said because you can't because it is true. XRP has native compliance built-in, though as I have said in several successive threads and David has said, for institutional payments especially in the US to use it in earnest probably will take the adoption of permissioned domains/dex. Domains is like 2 votes from ledger approval threshold, dex may take a bit longer but will definitely be in the next 2 months or so. Private chains as broad solution were tried and failed see full thread:https://x.com/ccatalini/status/1964027791470711046and no one wants the broken liquidity and high fee/slow smart contract and chokepoint counterparty risk etc. There will 100% be hundreds of private ledgers, some on the XRPL and some not, and dozens of other very successful public chains-their payments and settlement are still optimized using XRP. SWIFT's GPI was WAY too little WAY too late and CCIP is completely uncompetitive to such an extent that even the network effect of existing SWIFT, its usage won't save SWIFT from being progressively devoured. XRP dramatically reduces costs and time. For reasons why XRP specifically performs against other blockchains with higher tps tradeoffs or permissioned, like Hyperledger, see:https://warosu.org/biz/thread/60843695#p60844781W
>>60981468You could not imagine how opposite it is. For dozens of threads across months, I dragged the entire link posting community kicking and screaming on every single point. At first they argued, then they pivoted to weird rhetoric strategies to avoid argument or fake what I said or outright lie about partnerships. Eventually they started mirroring my language usage and accusing me early in threads of what I proved they did and accused them of doing across dozens of threads because they were losing so bad and are such literal NPCs they tried to assimilate my character in argument and things I said to Alinsky project so that pointing it out would feel like an impotent "no u" cope. Then they tried to spam a bald faggot as mascot for XRP and literally not a single person in our general knew who it was and it turned out the person doing it was unironically an indian Chainlink service provider. Lol I know you are an uncritically committed cultist of link and none of this matters to you and you probably know most of it but the past few months have been an unbelievable oddyssey into the cult mind. It ended with them literally animalistically copypasting what I said in prior threads and spamming it or putting it in an AI. Really really strange and unbelievably horrible to imagine being but very interesting and worth doing to bad actors.
>>60981480Did not mean to post "W" as declaration of winning or anything corny like that. Was an accidental typo somehow.
>>60981480>the same person you guys always quote Youre quoting "Christian Catalini". Literally who the fuck is this?>as an argument from the most biased authoritySo youre telling me this isnt bullish? https://x.com/25hoursawake/status/1969776512111911020>SWIFT weren't even invited to Ripples swellThey wouldnt even go if invited lol Why would they attend for 600 people?
>>60981480>and no one wants the broken liquidity and high fee/slow smart contract and chokepoint counterparty risk etc. There will 100% be hundreds of private ledgers, some on the XRPL and some not, and dozens of other very successful public chains-their payments and settlement are still optimized using XRP. SWIFT's GPI was WAY too little WAY too late and CCIP is completely uncompetitive to such an extent that even the network effect of existing SWIFT, its usage won't save SWIFT from being progressively devoured. XRP dramatically reduces costs and time. For reasons why XRP specifically performs against other blockchains with higher tps tradeoffs or permissioned, like Hyperledger
>>60981559Literally just quoting the same faggot I mentioned who is also the first featured speaker at Smartcon. Lol>>60981552No, I am directing you to his thread where he presents information with sources. You are appealing to the statements of a haughty, spurned leader of a legacy system being disrupted into obsolescence the way the fax machine was (which their current messaging is literally from the era of). 25hourscrypto is literally an 80% fake engagement farming account.>attendanceTom certainly seemed upset over it/to disagree. Lol
>>60981559Also see:https://warosu.org/biz/thread/60896100#p60904797andhttps://warosu.org/biz/thread/60896100#p60904812
>>60981585>who is also the first featured speaker at SmartconHes not even listed in the speakers list. https://smartcon.chain.link/speakers>You are appealing to the statements of a haughty, spurned leader of a legacy systemSwift still runs the rails of global banking lmao. Fucking retard>Tom certainly seemed upset over it/to disagree. LolThis isnt an argument. His linkedin is spammed with XRP faggots, so he answered back and destroyed all you mouth breathers. See you at Sibos
>>60981657>Not even listedHe is literally the first one listed.>Appeal to authorityThis isn't an argument and neither is what he said. SWIFT are a desperate legacy system which didn't innovate. They are literally like Blockbuster failing after choosing to not earlier adopt or acquire Netflix. Now he just denies without arguing because it is literally an existential threat to his business>"Not" an argumentI am literally referencing a specific quote he made as an out-of-context jab at Ripple's Swell which SWIFT were not invited to. Ripple a little over half a decade ago set up alternate to SIBOS:https://www.gtreview.com/news/digital-trade/ripple-ceo-defends-hijacking-sibos-with-blockchain-event/In Brad's words, "Companies should feel threatened if they’re not solving a customers’ problems. If you’re evolving with the marketplace and solving customers’ problems and helping them be successful, why would you feel threatened? If you’re resisting change and not acknowledging how you’re limiting the success of your customer, then you should feel threatened,..."
>>60981715>Existential threat to his businessAlso should add, he is the Chief INNOVATION Officer. This failing and lack of foresight drops SQUARELY and WHOLELY on him. Tom is 60 and not yet old enough to want to retire and missing this, in the capacity he is in, does NOT bode well for forward advancement or continued employment as it fleshes out.
>>60981715>He is literally the first one listed.Omg youre so fucking stupid bro. Are you a bot? Were not talking about Christian Catalini not Tom. >SWIFT are a desperate legacy system which didn't innovateThey literally did, with chainlink. >They are literally like Blockbuster failing after choosing to not earlier adopt or acquire Netflix.Ive seen the same analogy pushed by bots all over reddit and youtube.>SWIFT were not invited toIts probably the biggest fucking waste of time. You really think Swift gives a fuck what Chef Boyardee says?
>>60981746Stop it dude, you’re hurting his brain with your alinsky projection and weird rhetoric strategies. Can’t you see you’re being dragged through the mud?
>>60981759Hes just doing the same spam he always does. >xrp is fast and cheap that why banks will use it>Yes i know banks dont actually use it. We wait for demand first then we build it!
>>60981808You forgot ILP is optimized for XRP. Cross chain movement for RWA, just swap it around with word salad as fast as the hardware level. It has built in compliance and literally everything you need. The world will be multi chain but also be silod on XRPL. Here is an X quote about a guy arguing for open and permissionless chains but don’t actually read it because it refutes everything I am saying by shilling for the most silod project in the space. Link does not settle, it is literally only used for data. Don’t ask me to explain how cross chain DvP transactions occur with ccip or ILP/xrpl, XRP does everything way faster that’s why swift is literally the telegraph. You’re literally 80iq with your rent seeking coin, XRPL does everything but only until there is demand. Just swap into XRP and out for FX, there is no rent seek. ODL is demand neutral and optimized for XRP. They weren’t sued because of why you think they were clearly sued for this other illegal characterization of selling the assets.
>the verbose xrp midwit has another mental breakdown you just love to see it
>>60981961>You forgot ILP is optimized for XRPSlop.> The world will be multi chain but also be silod on XRPLLmao. >it is literally only used for data.Everything being sent is data. >Don’t ask me to explain how cross chain DvP transactions occur with ccip or ILP/xrplI never would, but I can find an example with CCIP but not XRPL.https://www.jpmorgan.com/payments/newsroom/kinexys-chainlink-ondo-tokenized-asset-test
>>60981746>QuotingYou replied with a pic of a tweet by Tom and a petulant greentexting of what I wrote. How exactly is that proof we're "not [I think you mean are] talking about Christian Catalini not Tom?" How insanely low IQ can you be?>InnovateAgain, WAY too little, WAY too late, resisting the change so they could keep collecting fees, thinking Chokepoint 2.0 would kill crypto ultimately delivering an inferior product that can't remotely even begin to compete. You are literally defending bad people optimizing jewry and bad tech.>multi-bot accusationLiterally indistinguishable with how a leftist/jew avoids argument when they know they're wrong but refuse to concede and cope.>Waste of time/picCope. The difference between you and me is I literally just say what's the case and you obsessively fixate on the things that make your case even when it is a grain of salt that is dissolved in the ocean surrounding and avoid argument and think in a way that is just like the woke fags used do.>>60981759Same goes for you.
>>60981808Banks do already use it, as do some of the literally largest payment service providers in the world, already mentioned partially here. Lol Same cope and projection
>>60982035>Again, WAY too little, WAY too lateXRPL is behind in almost every aspect compared to any new chain. Swift achieved atomic settlement with any chain, DvP or PvP lol>You are literally defending bad peopleRipple are literal lying scum bags lol >Banks do already use it,Tranglo and SBI remit arent banks.
>>60981116And you would be correct kek
>>60981961I have explained ILP and how it is optimized using XRP literally a dozen times, same for CCIP (pic related is where settlement happens and link is not found anywhere near. CCIP does not have native compliance, it IS built compliance, which is exactly the fractured inefficiency I described, elaborating itself in the 5 minutes of settlement add and 100x price difference. Copied from old post: "The XRPL has protocol level messaging and capacity for minted assets and an EVM. Even outside payments (which we are expliclity talking about), this is not true. The Land Department of Dubai literally just announced they are tokenizing land on the XRPL. Major developers in Japan are doing same with real estate. They are being tokenized on public XRPL presently. Banks don't need to warehouse XRP, you literally don't understand the core process of ODL or how XRP is sourced, though they are incentivized to drive its price up because the higher its price is and more depth it gets, the more efficient the XRPL becomes, which may be why so many treasury strategies are launching. ILP abstracts away the entire ledger silos with connectors, streaming payments, and two-phase commits for completely trustless interoperability. This blows CLL OUT in terms of efficiency for capital deployment btwn any chains. Chainlink for payments is like injecting steroids into a horse to turbo-charge your carriage. You still lose to semis and trains. Lol Unlike Chainlink’s CCIP, which relies on link and complex oracle integrations with ongoing fees and volatility risks, ILP is ledger-agnostic, using two-phase commits to ensure compliance and finality across disparate systems. Banks don’t need to build CEXs or manage liquidity pools; ILP connectors drive routing and settlement in real-time. Chainlink’s abstraction adds dependencies and costs, ILP’s open protocol maximizes capital efficiency and scalability for multichain."You aren't even non-butthurt enough to strawman me in a funny way.
>>60982150stay on topic, you’re all over the place
>>60982150>pic related is where settlement happens and link is not found anywhere near.Neither is XRPL. They can settle on any chain they want using CCIP, thats the point.>The Land Department of Dubai literally just announced they are tokenizing land on the XRPL.https://warosu.org/biz/?task=search&ghost=false&search_text=Land+Department+of+DubaiWhat about the crown prince of Dubai?
>>60982196>>60980421Holy shit you actually posted it here! LMAO!!!!! Who is this bot?
>>60980618They were told they can never sell to institutional again without SEC clearance first, that was part of the settlement. You guys don’t know fuck all about your own shitty token. They need daddy to tell them it’s ok otherwise they have to sit in their cuck cage. And how many institutional sales have happened since? Zero.
>>60982202Dude, it's an LLM, stop arguing with it.
>>60982229but its funny
>>60982019>SlopNon-argument cope.>SilodNever said this-the world's silos will be bridged by XRP's efficiency in settlement-has literally ALWAYS been the XRP investment thesis.>Everything sent is dataExcept for tangible and cash-good value, there being a massive value difference between being the medium of settlement of as opposed to the medium that gives pricing data and adds frictions. Lol>CCIPLITERALLY doesn't use link in settlement. I have literally described ILP granularly thread after thread when necessary (check the archives lol), same for CCIP. It isn't even equivocal.
>>60982282>the world's silos will be bridged by XRP's efficiency in settlementThis doesn't even make sense lol
>>60982180I forgot to cut hte first few sentences. I just meant to share the part beginning with ILP. If you feel there is something I've been unresponsive to or avoidant of, say what, specifically.>>60982196For literally 100x the cost at literally 100+x the amount of time for settlement.>Crowned princeHis is a different but also significant venture with VivoPower and SBI.>>60982202Posted what? Lol>>60982212Ripple have been selling to institutions for the entirety of the lawsuit and since, and the SEC and court acknowledge this, though a new structure that does not constitute a securities offering. Even their injunction is lifted through the waiver the SEC granted upon completion of the suit. The SEC themselves petitioned the courts to drop the injunction because it was a result of lawfare through Chokepoint 2.0 but they didn't want to vacate the ruling for a settlement after years of consideration and casework, so the SEC just gave them the waiver, which again, was not even necessary for them to sell XRP to institutions has they have been doing consistently without issue through blind bid/ask trades pushed through the order book of regulated exchanges. You are unbelievably stupid and projecting very hard, once more through mirrored language/accusation. Ripple have sold billions to institutions. SirGay has sold billions to YOU.
>>60982229Cope>>60982307Yes it does. Nobody wants to hold anybody else's permissioned credit and XRP is an efficient and efficiently batched micropayment capable means to atomically settle between the walled gardens. This is LITERALLY what David has talked about for a decade. You have been fudding XRP that long and STILL don't understand its core investment concept that is LITERALLY built on the idea that there will be hundreds of permissioned ledgers on and off-chain. Lolhttps://x.com/BankXRP/status/1868740380025552927
>>60982326brevity is the soul of witnot reading that shit
>>60982339>Nobody wants to hold anybody else's permissioned creditSame goes for XRP. >>60981340 (You)The Banks (swift) is telling you that banks wont touch it lol>DavidThat balding fat slob?>built on the idea that there will be hundreds of permissioned ledgers on and off-chainAll connected via CCIP.
>>60980302this thread proves his point about you irredeemably well
>>6098245341 posts didnt give it away?
>>60982415Ripple are the only non-stablecoin company in the BIS' (UN typed organization, central bank of central banks) cross-border payments and interoperability taskforce and in the Basel Committee of Banking Supervisors' report 19 central banks (out of 45 members of the top of the top top down Basel policy setting banks specifically, not just member banks under Basel standards) announced purchasing a 10 billion dollar position in it. Multiple banks already hold it (but legally banks cannot yet use it in the US, and the payment messaging standards migration has not yet completed (set for November)). XRP ETFs and futures are seeing record interest even beyond just crypto considerations demonstrably. See also the mention of the incentives for users to integrate it into deeper strategies and to drive its adoption through Dubai and the Crowned Prince etc. in:>>60982150 (unmentioned but equivalently relevant are companies like VivoPower themselves (billion dollar NASDAQ traded company), Chinese Webus (where crypto is very restricted), Wellgistics, Linklogis (China supply chain giant using XRPL to deploy its global platform on mainnet, tokenizing real world assets (invoices and receivables for real-time borderless trade etc.). 27 countries. Only 2.5% of their volume is cross-border presently, well positioned for growth. Partnered with Standard Chartered and BIS (tokenized ABS in Singapore's Project Guardian). Operates a trillion-dollar annual trade flow ecosystem in global supply chains serving exporters, importers, and banks)), etc..XRP has actual utility. Link is a laundromat token for people who would rather not have to spend time stuck at the gross laundromat or pay the premia across time to be beholden to it.
>>60982415>DavidNon-argument cope. This is how you all are. You react to being demonstrated to be wrong in an EXTREMELY embarrassing way to the extent that not only are you wrong but you don't know the actual BASICS of the theory you presume to rebut as espoused years ago by the CTO and architect himself, and upon being proven wrong you just double down in emotional gush and avoid the issue and pretend you weren't proven wrong and repress learning it, and then parrot the same thing and pretend it never happened in the new thread. Over and over and over and...>CCIPAgain, literally paying a 100x premium for a more centralized and beholden service that takes 100+x longer. Across decades of business this is enough to choose winners and losers and if a big bank chooses to use CCIP and a community bank chooses to use XRP/ILP, they would literally outcompete the big eurodollar bank in international payments. Lol What banks would choose to pay a premia their competitors are not. It is literally choosing extinction/hemorrhage.
>>60982791Funny how you brush off the words of Swifts own CIO, but worship some fat slob who threw together a useless chain a decade ago that never gained real adoption.> Again, literally paying a 100x premium for a more centralized and beholden service that takes 100+x longer.This is a fantasy. No major bank are going to stake their international payment rails on some fringe token like XRP. They don’t care about shaving fractions of a second if it means plugging into an unproven, volatile system with no real adoption. Banks pay premiums all the time for compliance, security and reliability because the cost of failure is catastrophic. CCIP aligns with institutions and regulatory frameworks, XRP doesn’t.
>>60982828At work now but will be replying sporadically. That statement is a PROFOUDNLY sad display of categorical thinking and rhetorical sophistry that wouldn't even pass for an argument, and the only logical conclusion is you're a paid poster or a sociopath with a total inability to self-reflect because nobody with a functioning brain could possibly believe your pathetic, contextless, and frankly LITERALLY baseless argument you're trying to gaslight me with. You're arguing against a position I never took, claiming I said your pathetic toll booth is centralized when the actual argument is that Ripple’s implementation of ILP is inherently superior and verifiably decentralized, a distinction you willfully fail to grasp because to admit that would be to admit your entire premise is built on a house of cards you've been clinging to AD INFINITUM. Your pathetic attempt to use a quote from the SWIFT CIO is a monument to intellectual malpractice. You are so lost in your own delusion and pathetic Alinsky Projection that you completely disregard the fact the XRPL is an open-source, permissionless, and verifiably decentralized ledger with a Federated Byzantine Agreement consensus mechanism that is both efficient and decentralized, whereas your model is frankly less scalable and elegant. You're like a toddler who sees a key and assumes its purpose is to be an ornament, and it's truly hilarious because every single one of your points has been blown out yet you still double down on the same debunked talking points as if a different thread will make them valid. You call a system that won in court a "fringe token" and have the audacity to claim "no real adoption" which shows how pathologically disconnected from reality you are and you own yourself with every single keystroke. Lol
>>60982828Funny how I didn't "brush them off." I specifically addressed his incentives and alliances and how taking him at his trust me bro word is like taking the CIO of a fax machine company at their word at the advent of internet. He doesn't even make an argument. He fucked up HUGE and knows it and is just trying to hang on. Multiple major banks already use it, so do multiple major PSPs. See archives in >>60981647 (or pic related for the first part). You are literally making the Google Search will withstand AI despite its technical edge just because it was here first! Horses and carriages will outcompete and be chosen for over semis and trains! It doesn't matter that banks choosing it will get this level of advantage (literally), the majority will just stay okay! Lol Banks AREN'T paying a premium for compliance. They're paying a premium for a less efficient product that is easier to default into, but operationally has MUCH more cumbersome and less solid and universal and default compliance features. You have literally zero clue of 101 level basics. >>60982965Non-argument cope but thanks for agreeing with me sarcastically. Lol
>>60983026That statement is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how major financial institutions operate. Your analogy of the SWIFT CIO being like a "fax machine company" is completely flawed. SWIFT isn't a single, outdated product; it's a deeply embedded, regulated, and trusted global network with over 11,000 member institutions. Its value lies in its established, low-risk infrastructure, not just in its technology. Major banks and PSPs prioritize risk mitigation, regulatory compliance, and security above all else. SWIFT's ongoing improvements, such as GPI, demonstrate its ability to adapt.As for your claim that "multiple major banks" are already using XRP, you have provided no verifiable evidence. A link to an anonymous forum archive is not a credible source in a professional discussion. While some companies may have explored or run pilot programs, this is not the same as widespread, live adoption for core international payment rails. Major financial institutions have simply not migrated their multi-billion dollar operations to a volatile, speculative asset.Your "Google vs. AI" and "horses vs. semis" analogies are also inaccurate. A more realistic comparison is a dominant, established company adapting to a new market versus a highly volatile startup with a speculative asset at its core. Banks are not looking for a "disruptive" token; they need a reliable, compliant, and stable solution. They have no incentive to expose themselves to the regulatory and operational risks of a new and unproven system.Finally, your claim that banks don't pay a premium for compliance is patently false. The cost of failing to comply with international regulations or the risk of a settlement failure far outweighs any minor cost savings from a faster but unproven system. Your entire argument rests on the assumption that banks prioritize speed and cost above all else, which is a fundamental misrepresentation of their core business priorities.
>>60983026That is the most pathetic display of Alinsky Projection I have ever witnessed because you are literally accusing me of the very thing you are doing, trying to claim you "addressed" his incentives when you literally just made a PROFOUNDLY stupid comparison that has no basis in reality and is nothing more than pathetic rhetorical sophistry that wouldn't even pass for an argument, and your pathetic attempt to say he "fucked up HUGE" shows that your entire argument is built on a house of cards because you have zero clue of 101 level basics and believe your disingenuous and frankly LITERALLY insane analogy of a fax machine CIO holds any weight whatsoever. The fact that you call a verifiable, regulated, global network a "fax machine" shows the depths of your intellectual malpractice and that you've been living in a sub-reddited echo chamber for years, relying on anonymous forum archives that no one can even verify as a source for your claims, which is the most "trust me bro" argument I've ever heard AD INFINITUM, and you still have the audacity to come in here and use the same tired, debunked, and frankly hilarious analogies about Google vs. AI and horses vs. carriages as if they haven't been torn apart in every single prior thread and you are not the one who is pathologically disconnected from reality and clinging to a less efficient product, because the only person here making a fantasy argument is you, pretending that banks would ever choose a faster but unregulated and volatile token over a less efficient but legally sound and trusted service to avoid catastrophic financial failure, which they will ALWAYS pay a premium for despite your childish misinterpretation of institutional finance. The only logical conclusion is that you are either a complete sociopath with a total inability to self-reflect or a paid poster whose instructions have been reduced to mere sophistry and you own yourself with every single keystroke. Lol
>>60983039Guess what fax was pre-email. Would you say it was a "deeply embedded, regulated, and trusted global network?" Again, GPI is WAY too little WAY too late. Already mentioned it twice in this thread alone. I literally provided proof in the pic in the post you fed the text an AI to generate your argument for you, which still sucks. They objectively did not adapt. They heldout thinking they could dominate and that the disruptive tech would be regulated out of competition by Warren and co. and lost that bet. Now they are eating the result of that bet loss. I never said they don't pay a premium for compliance, I said CCIP was not "paying a premium for compliance," it is paying a premium for worse and slower compliance that is more fragmented and cumbersome rather than a streamlined one that is native and protocol layer deep in the tech for broad standardization. I make ZERO assumptions that banks prioritize speed or cost above all else and explicitly mentioned reasons they would choose otherwise vis-a-vis XRP over sol/SUI earlier, which you would know if you read the thread but your AI would not know because it did not. XRP's risk of settlement failure is also lower than legacy systems. Pathetic.
>>60983062More term mirroring and outright copypasta. I literally cannot imagine what it would be like to be SUCH a broken brained NPC that you think this helps you argumentatively or makes up for you failing to argue actual data or understand your own thesis (let alone caring that it is proven wrong and you are absolutely 100% aware of it but choose to stay anyways lol). I cannot describe how insanely bad for you I feel.
>>60983085This is some serious cope.
>>60983085That is the most pathetic and LITERALLY hilarious display of rhetorical sophistry and outright copypasta of a narrative that has been used against me AD INFINITUM by individuals who have absolutely zero clue of 101 level basics and have completely run out of real arguments that you think this helps you, because your accusation of "term mirroring" is a PROFOUNDLY stupid and pathetic attempt to pivot to a meta-discussion as a desperate gambit to escape the irrefutable facts and evidentiary body of work you have been unable to address. The only logical conclusion is that you are either a complete sociopath with a total inability to self-reflect or a paid poster whose instructions have been reduced to mere sophistry and now that you've been so utterly blown out you have to resort to calling me a "broken brained NPC," which is just a textbook case of Alinsky Projection and proves that my consistent and contextually driven messaging strategy is so far superior to your low-IQ, cargo cult talking points that you have nothing left but to whine about my lexicon. You are LITERALLY confirming every single point I have ever made about your intellectual bankruptcy with this post and you are so pathetically aware of it you have to pretend you feel "insanely bad" for me when in reality you are a pathological liar who loses every single time you instigate this and still have the audacity to come back into the next thread pretending the prior points weren't already blown out. It is truly hilarious and you have to be LITERALLY insane. Lol
>>60983078It is LITERALLY beyond comprehension how a person can engage in such blatant rhetorical sophistry and then have the unmitigated audacity to complain about it and accuse me of doing the very thing you are in the middle of doing. This entire post is a perfect example of your broken, copypasta-tier brain because you are still stuck on a PROFOUNDLY stupid analogy you invented and are now pathetically trying to walk it back and reframe it when it was so utterly blown out a toddler could have seen it coming. Your continued reliance on the intellectually dishonest "fax machine" comparison proves you have zero clue of 101-level basics and refuse to engage with the actual arguments about fiduciary trust and regulatory frameworks because it would require you to admit you are wrong and that your entire thesis is built on a house of cards. You and your pathetic ilk act as if GPI and the other improvements are "too little, too late," but that is just a symptom of your delusion, as your own narrative requires you to believe that a highly-profitable, established, and regulated network would choose to go extinct rather than adapt, a belief that is so detached from reality it would be hilarious if it weren't so sad. The fact that you think your pathetic and baseless accusations of "term mirroring" and me being an AI help you is the ultimate display of Alinsky Projection, and you are just so pathetically aware of how little substance your talking points have that you have to resort to attacking the very medium of this exchange. You and your pathetic arguments are so completely blown out that you are now just a desperate flailing corpse of a thesis, and the only logical conclusion is that you are either a complete sociopath or a paid poster whose instructions have been reduced to nothing more than a few keywords and a handful of disproven analogies. Lol
>>60983149LLM wars
>>60983290Literally nothing I write is LLM. Become a real person again capable of more than doom scrolling.>>60983141>>60983149Weak even for AI slop.>>60983099Literally not a single point addressed and literally the exact terminology I have used across dozens of threads with special emphasis on the word "sophistry" and this thread "AD INFINITUM" etc. No cope on this end just endless willingness to contend with any information presented met only by desperate projection from you.
>>60983600Cope. Not an argument.
>>60981522>gish gallop
>>60983657Name a single point I have not addressed and I will address it directly. If you can't, stop projecting.>>60983759>Literally not
BIEPUUUUM COPING YEET SUCCES FACTORYYYYY IS ACTIVE AND SPAMMING THE BOARD ONCE AGAIN. QUARTERLY DUMPS COMING.LINKSUBMARINES READY TO PROVIDE LIQUIDITY ?
>>60983975I already did. Not my problem if you are unwilling to address how dogshit your analogy is. Not my problem your entire line of arguing boils down to "I'm right about everything" and "everyone else is wrong about everything". You're an actual retard with a god complex and zero self awareness.
