The Mysterious Return of Ripple's Ghost Founder

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Fourteen years of silence. Then, just like that - an emoji (🫢). Arthur Britto, the shadow co-founder of Ripple, broke his self-imposed exile. The XRP community went wild. 🔥

Britto isn't your typical crypto founder. He helped build the XRP Ledger then vanished. Completely. While David Schwartz and Chris Larsen became the public faces, Britto chose invisibility. Kinda strange for someone so pivotal.

His timing feels... meaningful? He disappeared in 2011. Same year Satoshi walked away. Both left their creations to others. Both vanished without explanation. The parallels seem a bit too neat to be accidental. Some whisper that Britto might be connected to Bitcoin's mysterious creator. Or part of that circle? Who knows. 🤔

Schwartz confirmed it wasn't a hack. "This is really him." Those words matter.

The man holds about 2% of all XRP. He's PolySign's president too. Not exactly a minor player. His tiny digital footprint after so many years might signal something bigger coming for XRP. Maybe. The crypto world loves its mysteries.

No real proof connects him to Satoshi. But the matching timelines make you wonder. The coincidences pile up. Questions multiply. Web3 watchers wait for his next move. 👀

A random emoji after 14 years? Seems unlikely. The crypto universe buzzes with theories. What's he planning?

We're just getting started...

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