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XRP, Ripple, and the ledger — three animals

A classroom history: RipplePay’s old IOU idea, a 2012 ledger, a company that is not the , and a public U.S. case about how XRP was sold. We are not lawyers. A court page is not a coupon. Look. Do not buy. Not a broker.

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  • Ripple the company, the XRP Ledger, and XRP the token are three animals
  • XRPL does not mint pages the way Bitcoin mines — a different rule is not automatically better
  • A lawsuit is a public record. It is not legal advice and not a reason to buy

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Say the three names before you say last

People mash three things into one word. Ripple is a company (once OpenCoin, then Ripple Labs, then Ripple). The XRP Ledger (XRPL) is a public network that started in 2012. XRP is the native on that ledger. Nominative: Ripple and XRP stay with their owners. We are not them. We do not sell XRP. We do not run RippleNet.

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People mash three things into one word. Ripple is a company (once OpenCoin, then Ripple Labs, then Ripple). The XRP Ledger (XRPL) is a public network that started in 2012. XRP is the native on that ledger. Nominative: Ripple and XRP stay with their owners. We are not them. We do not sell XRP. We do not run RippleNet.

A company can use a . A token can exist if the company vanished. A ledger can run if you never heard of the company. Mixing them is how a pitch sells a lawsuit, a bank partnership rumor, and a as one animal. In this classroom they stay three.

Ryan Fugger’s RipplePay (around 2004) was an older IOU-web idea — trust lines between people, not a public . That prehistory matters so nobody tells you XRP “appeared from nowhere in 2020.” It also is not a reason the must go up. An ancestor is not a coupon.

Human: if your uncle says “Ripple” when he means the , you can now which animal. Then you can still refuse a ticket. Look. Do not buy. Not a broker.

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