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Steelmanning XRP

on Diamond Rhino

with Brady Dale

http://www.frontstageexit.com/

Welcome to the first episode of Diamond Rhino, which should come out every Sunday. Let me know if I got anything horribly wrong, and please bear with me as I get my workflow down. I learned a lot doing this episode. Next one should go better.

Sound clips came from these videos:

XRPL Foundation - Consensus

https://youtu.be/k6VqEkqRTmk

XRPL Foundation - Nodes and validators

https://youtu.be/JjaVDXPqnbA

XRPL Foundation - Tokenization

https://youtu.be/Oj4cWOiWf4A

David Schwartz Stanford Blockchain Conference 2020

https://youtu.be/W15S28tmo5o

Brad Garlinghouse on the Future Of Ripple, XRP, & Crypto | Live From Ripple Swell 2025

https://youtu.be/z5HP7xNbANc

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5cnb0S3e2hvFdk0Urd14Je

News and other text media referred to in this episode:

Archive link to the funding announcement in WSJ

https://archive.ph/C7h9a

The race to replace Bitcoin — Observer

https://observer.com/2015/02/the-race-to-replace-bitcoin/

When Howey Met Gary

https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/speeches-statements/speech-hinman-061418

Coverage of the Hinman Speech

https://www.axios.com/2023/06/13/sec-officials-expressed-concern-about-digital-assets-policy-messaging-in-2018

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/06/13/hinman-emails-reveal-2018-speech-on-ether-drew-input-from-multiple-sec-officials

XRP Scan - Unique Node List

https://xrpscan.com/validators

University research post

https://cryptoslate.com/ripple-grants-2-million-university-kansas-funds-29-universities-blockchain-crypto-research

User notes the UNL isn't editable at the node level

https://www.fastbull.com/news-detail/ripple-cto-drops-major-xrp-unl-clarification-details-news_6300_0_2025_4_5977_3

EOS worst fears

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2019/09/19/everyones-worst-fears-about-eos-are-proving-true

Ripple report on all its acquisitions this year

https://ripple.com/insights/building-the-one-stop-shop-for-digital-asset-infrastructure/

Some additional critique of Ripple Consensus

https://cryptobern.github.io/noconsensusripple/

Music in the episode:

"Data Breach" by FASSounds

https://pixabay.com/music/electro-data-breach-112775/

"Ever Flowing" by ItsWatr

https://pixabay.com/music/future-bass-ever-flowing-12277/

"Bitcoins going up" by SunoMusicShowYouTube

https://pixabay.com/music/american-roots-rock-bitcoins-going-upsuno-music-show-youtube-194491/

All from Pixabay Music

Thanks for listening! Let me know what you think!