Quote from: Dogedegen on Today at 12:24:32 PM

Quote from: jumptheramp on Today at 04:04:34 AM

Ripple/XRP is making dumb people way more vocal. The confident ignorance is mind blowing on X. So many non-technical people who are so full of themselves it's disgusting. People literally brainwashed by paid influencers, the "XRP (bot) army," advertisements, and blatant misinformation. XRP is brain cancer. The sooner is dies, the better for humanity.

We are in complete agreement here, and this is a downside of the modernity that we live in. Instead of being locally shunned, dumb people are becoming vocal and joining in massive groups that encourage each other's ignorance. As this shouting continues to grow it negatively starts influencing other people who are not that confident about their knowledge or views, creating new suckers. This should not be allowed, but I don't see a good way of legally solving this. It would be very hard to prove before a court any intention of harm using current laws. Further, I see no good way of establishing a law that goes against things like this without establishing a totalitarian nightmare. At the very least we could disallow influencers from being a thing. They continue to fool vast amounts of people on many topics, Ripple or otherwise.

Agreed. I think the only thing we can really do is pop into conversations we see to drop a reminder that yes, it's a centralized, pre-mined, self-allocated, incomplete scam ledger, that has zero real world value, has no actual banks using it and the "partners," were PAID to be called that which are literally banks that Ripple PAID to run a pilot that they completed and did not continue using, runs paid FUD campaigns, pays for condescending bot engagement, pays for influencers to shill it, pays for insane amounts of advertising, actively promotes blatant misinformation even in pair articles, lies constantly, outright brain cancerous SCAM. It's the antithesis of "crypto." Their only positive cash flow is from dumping the self-allocated pre-mined vapor tokens on gullible, naïve, non-technical, likely poor retail buyers.

Banning influencers from being paid to shill securities (yes XRP is a fucking security, spare me please) would be a great step in the right direction. Financial crimes of this scale that defrauds people should be punished way, way more harshly IMHO. It ruins lives when people are conned into thinking they may have a chance to better their families. XRP/Ripple leaders themselves need imprisoned, can't change my mind. They're that nefarious.