So, get this: there’s a chunk of XRP Ledger history as missing as my faith in digital detoxing. Cue the suspicious glances. 💁♀️ Critics have basically turned this into their own hobby—like knitting, but with more rage threads on Reddit—alleging Ripple Labs is hoarding control and sabotaging decentralization one vanished ledger at a time.
Enter David Schwartz, Ripple CTO, who seems painfully aware that every time someone mentions “missing data,” the crypto world’s monocle pops off. In his most recent “please let me live” announcement, Schwartz assured us that the data—gone but not forgotten—vanished thanks to, and I quote, “software development and testing processes.” Or as I like to call it: the classic ‘Well, it worked on my machine’ defense.
Turns out, the devs went full mad scientist on the codebase, spawning more ledger streams than a Netflix binge. At some point, a bug threw a tantrum and zapped about ten days’ worth of precious ledgers. Most of these were heroically recovered (everyone loves a comeback), except for the first 32,000, which are now presumably living their best disappeared lives in the data Bermuda Triangle.
Schwartz, still clinging to shreds of dignity, revealed that the team sort of thought, “Eh, we’ll just reset the ledger later and this’ll all be yesterday’s news.” But—twist—the reset never happened. They considered a nice tidy spring clean, but no, that would’ve trashed more history than your ex’s attempt at self-improvement. So the messy ledger past lives on, alongside my search history from 2012.
Schwartz’s take? He swears there was no evil masterminding, no dance of the crypto supervillain. Just a bug, some refusal to make things tidier, and a commitment to “transparency,” which I suppose now translates to, “Please stop emailing me about decentralization.” 😅 So, are Ripple pulling the strings or just tripping over them? You decide.
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