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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.
Two-time 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. He says the whitepaper convinced him the double-spend problem was solvable at all.