Dr. David 'JoelKatz' Schwartz (@joel9katz) 's Twitter Profile
Dr. David 'JoelKatz' Schwartz

@joel9katz

Replacing TradFi with decentralized, censorship-resistant blockchain tech. CTO at Ripple; one of the original architects of the XRP ledger.

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linkhttp://distributedagreement.com calendar_today22-11-2011 20:25:40

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We can fight each other or we can align against those who think people shouldn't be allowed to make their own choices. Do we want to repeat the mistake that got us into the mess Trump's getting us out of?

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Roger Ver was there for me when I was down and needed help. Now Roger needs our support. No one should spend the rest of their life in prison over taxes. Let him pay the tax (if any) and be done with it. #FreeRoger

Roger Ver was there for me when I was down and needed help. Now Roger needs our support.

No one should spend the rest of their life in prison over taxes. Let him pay the tax (if any) and be done with it. #FreeRoger
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Wife: Can you put those chairs by the fire pit? Me: Where? We don't have a fire pit. Her: There. Me: That's not a fire pit. That's a fireplace. Her: It has no chimney. Why is it not a fire pit? Me: A fire pit would have chairs around it.

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i = √(-1) i = √(-1/1) i = √( (-1/1) X (-1/-1) ) i = √( (-1 X -1) / (1 X -1) ) i = √(1/-1) i = √(1) / √(-1) i = 1 / i i = (1 / i) X (i / i) i = (i) / (i²) i = (i) / (-1) i = -i

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My favorite theory for Arthur Britto's mysterious post is that many, many years ago he set up a deadman switch to send the private keys to his XRPL accounts to me if he doesn't post for 15 years and he can't remember how to shut it off.

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From 1998 to 2010, I worked for a software company in Santa Clara called WebMaster. At some point, I'll write in more detail what I did there, but the important bit for this story is that we had a product called "ConferenceRoom", an IRC server built for enterprise use.

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I haven't run any XRPL infrastructure myself in a few years. Looking at the network, it seems like the most useful thing would be a high-quality hub with reserved slots for UNL validators, other hubs, and servers serving applications on XRPL. This would be me personally, not