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A hundred billion units generated in a single stroke in June 2012, a validator list two organizations curate, and a five-year SEC lawsuit over who was allowed to sell them.
Stefan Thomas made an early viral Bitcoin explainer video and an early JS toolkit, became Ripple's CTO, and co-created Interledger — all while locked out of 7,002 BTC since around 2011.
A Silicon Valley executive (Yahoo, AOL) who joined Ripple in 2015 and became CEO in 2016. Has called Bitcoin both China-controlled and, separately, a legitimate store of value.
Twice-over fintech founder (E-Loan, Prosper) who co-founded the company that built the XRP Ledger in 2012. In 2021 he called Bitcoin's proof-of-work a technology the industry should retire.
Created Mt. Gox in 2010 and sold it in 2011, then co-created the XRP Ledger and Stellar. Says the whitepaper convinced him double-spend was solvable at all.
Satoshi explains Bitcoin's scalability, the transition to transaction fees, the choice of 21 million coins, and 64-bit integer values with 8 decimal places.
Steenbergen wishes for self-organizing money supply, references AardRock projects Wizard Rabbit Treasurer and Pekunio, asks about Ripple, and inquires whether Bitcoin has a protocol specification.