đź§µ THREAD: Ripple & Stellar: Was the War Staged?
You were told it was a feud.
Jed McCaleb “left” Ripple.
Founded Stellar to fight $XRP.
But what if that was the cover story?
What if XRP and XLM were never enemies…
But two sides of the same operation?
Open Thread👇
In 2013, Jed McCaleb, founder of Mt. Gox and eDonkey, joined Ripple Labs.
He helped create $XRP.
He left in 2014.
“Creative differences,” they said.
Then he launched Stellar (XLM).
The crypto world framed it as a civil war.
But was it?
Let’s look deeper.
• Ripple was building bank-friendly rails
• Stellar targeted developing nations & NGOs
• Both used similar codebases
• Both were invited to central bank discussions
Why would two “rivals”… work on opposite sides of the same global system?
🧵 THREAD: Was Jed McCaleb’s Exit from Ripple… A Strategic Cover Operation?
What if $XRP and $XLM were never rivals… but two sides of the same global plan?
Here’s the conspiracy nobody dares to say out loud… Open Thread 👇🏻
In 2013, Ripple co-founder Jed McCaleb suddenly left the company after a “fallout”…
He launched Stellar (XLM), positioned as Ripple’s “open-source rival.”
But what if this entire split…
was a strategic diversion?
Jed didn’t just disagree with Ripple.
He helped build it.
•Co-founder of Ripple Labs
•Architect of the XRP Ledger
•Early visionary behind cross-border tokenized money
So ask yourself: why create a “competing project” using nearly identical technology?