I hope Earth realizes some day how Ripple laid the foundation for our new financial arena over a decade ago. If not the creator then surely the early arrivers. Developing new protocols and donating them to the W3C was brilliant. Who else knows them and their potential better than the people who made them? I just followed along while they talked about, 'interoperability'. Made perfect sense. Its importance has never been more apparent as everyone wants to interact with everyone else.
I never considered at the time they were the only company that seemed to be developing the new system. The, 'Internet of Money'. Or, at least taking advantage of a brand new technology. Brad seemed to be the only CEO in photos with the planet's most important money people when I got here.
Now while the rest of the planet plays catch up, Ripple already has all of the solutions in one place. Okay, most of them. It's a privilege to know who and what they really are. They're not the, be all and end all but, they're the closest we have at the moment.