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@WilliamShatner Love the treasure chest. Today or tomorrow?

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@JoelKatz @ScamDetective5 Excellent! Understood. Curious if all servers around the world have been set to a higher abuse threshold? If so, at what point does a DoS type of mal-query become a concern vs. growth driven volume onboard spikes?

I'll give you an example. Say there's someone who has an XRPL server that just happens to be in the same datacenter as my hub. We have a nearly perfect connection, so latency is very low. The algorithm we use to exchange ledgers prefers peers with lower latency. So that server is very likely to query my server if it needs a ledger. And my server is very likely to respond quickly. The query algorithm does ask multiple servers to avoid putting too much load on any one peer. But the basic way the algorithm works is that it's receiving a response from a peer that triggers our act of sending a query to that peer. So it's quite possible that we'll wind up in a tight query/response loop with that very close peer. This is great for everyone. My server is set to fetch the ledger quickly because it's mostly in cache and their server can get the data with very low latency. But from the point of view of my server's algorithm looking for abuse, there's this server that keeps bombarding me with data requests at a very high rate. So, ironically, because things are working so well, there's actually a higher chance my server will disconnect the peer because the efficient operation seems abusive. A simple fix is to set a higher abuse threshold for servers with lower latency. Low latency cannot be faked, so this isn't that unsafe. While there hasn't been any attempt at a specific fix for this, some changes to adjust the way we measure peer load mitigated this issue quite a bit and it's fairly rare now.

Had to shutdown my hub to do some software upgrades. Here's the last two weeks of flawless operation.

@JoelKatz @Vet_X0 Which peer had an unscheduled maintenance event?

I've investigate most of them. They seem to be due to one of two factors. Sometimes, it's just peer churn. The green line measures the round-trip latency that 90% of servers are worse than, so it's a median-like measurement. Just adding one more slow server or one fast, close server disconnecting can push the measurement way down. Sometimes it does seem to be associated with micro-spikes in latency to the server. There's no evidence that any of them had any operational impact and no correlation with bandwidth or CPU spikes. (With the exception of one of them that was caused by a one-time unscheduled maintenance event.)

@JoelKatz @ScamDetective5 How exceptionally good can it be to cause a breakage?

You have a server with around 400 peers seeing around around two peers break per minute. That sounds high, but about 90% of it is nonsense since it includes the loss of a peer connection for any reason. For example: 1) Sometimes peer A is configured to connect to peer B but peer B happened to connect to peer A. Peer A can't necessarily tell an outbound connection attempt is to peer B, so it makes the attempt. Once they exchange identities, the peer connection is disconnected. 2) Sometimes a peer will be very broken in some way, for example configured for testnet or on such an old version of the code that sync is impossible, and connect to a healthy server. The connection will eventually break. 3) Sometimes peer servers shutdown, crash, or lose connection. That results in a disconnection. But I strongly suspect that some of it is "bad" and is due to inherent imperfections (maybe even bugs) in the code. Most peer connections are completely untrusted. And a peer might be malicious. For example, it might send us lots of garbage or demand lots of data from us that it doesn't need. Our algorithm for deciding when we consider this abusive is very good, but imperfect. There are even a few known cases where exceptionally good behavior can look exceptionally bad and result in healthy server-server links breaking.

@elonmusk Do you find this inspiring? Just curious.

@xrpofficial24 Or, just getting dumped onto the market to depress prices until the right time when mass purchase eliminates supply?

⚡️ WHALE ALERT ⚡️ 37M+ $XRP (≈ $50M) just hit Coinbase from an unknown wallet 👀 That’s not retail. That’s BIG money making moves. Sell-off incoming… or a setup for something bigger? ⚡ And it’s all happening during global market tension 🌍 This could get volatile FAST.

@beyond_broke @TeesCryptoSpot Or Ripple is a bank and Uphold and X can partner with Cross River to provide yield.

@TeesCryptoSpot Or even wilder Tether has problems after their audited financial come out and exchanges lose billions allowing the banks to acquire them for pennies on the dollar..

I wonder...and this could be wild speculation...but what if the top banks make a power move to start acquiring exchanges and even some fintech companies out there? This would give them the keys to defi/yield generating infrastructure regarding crypto in some ways...

@RemiReliefX Yes, but isn’t Ripple a bank? :)

We knew (at least I knew) that the greedy banks will win. It’s just the way it is. They have all the railroads set up already. We will use their tracks but we are moving from steam engines to bullet trains. At the end of the day…us early investors WON 🙌🙌🙌 Thank You Jesus!

@beyond_broke Xrp will be the delivery mechanism to put in place a new global currency and will be a measure of total globally currency in circulation. It is the only way. Release the Kraken!

Ripple set its sights on the full financial stack. They weren’t just aiming to handle payments, they wanted the whole system. Years later, that long game is starting to pay off, and it’s becoming clear that this was never about luck, it was strategy from day one.

@RemiReliefX @beyond_broke @bearableguy123 @WilliamShatner Release the Kraken!

@RemiReliefX @beyond_broke I am more and more convinced over the last month that XRP will not be measured by market cap, but rather a measure of currency in circulation, globally. Elon said all the money will be running on X and posts by Elon and his Mom and @bearableguy123 @WilliamShatner

🚨Friendly Reminder…..🚨 In September Ripple became partners with DBS Bank & Franklin Templeton. Yes, the same DBS bank that SWIFT is posting about “blockchain based LEDGER for cross border payments” 🙏🙌🙏🙌 AKA = XRPL moved by XRP $1200-$1700 XRP is MY target 🎯

@mayemusk @bearableguy123 @bgarlinghouse @beyond_broke Love this.

There is no food in the fridge. The garage where I slept is on the right. The shower only has one towel so I left it for Elon. That was okay with me. When I was a child, I’d spend three weeks in the Kalahari Desert without showering. Many times. There was no water. I think my parents prepared me for this luxury.🤣

@A_K_Mandhan Yes!!!!! Kucoin refused to work with US authorities on scammers and fraudsters. Great job, UAE!!!

Big update for UAE BREAKING: 🇦🇪 Dubai orders Kucoin to stop operating in the country.

@BSCNews @kucoincom Excellent! Crypto scammers who stole my funds operated using Kucoin and they did not cooperate with US authorities. They should be shut down!!! You go, Dubai!

🚨JUST IN: DUBAI ISSUES CEASE-AND-DESIST ORDERS AGAINST KUCOIN Dubai's VARA regulator has issued cease-and-desist orders against four entities trading as @kucoincom. It says the exchange does not hold the required licensing to operate in the jurisdiction. VARA says the exchange 'misrepresented' its licensing status. Source: TheBlock

@CarolineDPham Hypothetically, if all the conditions in the proposed regulations were satisfied, could these proposed regulations, in theory, potentially allow XRP to be a legitimate National Currency?

Get ready 👀

@beyond_broke 👀 ….New proposed OCC Rule for GENIUS implementation redefines National Currency……….uhhh, I am thinking this is relevant to BIS/IMF to become eSDR……maybe????

@beyond_broke Would you agree with my statement that market cap is a poor way to value XRP. Rather, the better way to value XRP is as a total value of currency in circulation that is valued against XRP? Is that a better way to look at XRP’s potential value?

@Vet_X0 Mutuum?

XRP is pristine collateral and we're getting peer-to-peer lending on the XRP Ledger.

@beyond_broke Coinbase is not letting me transfer anything to cold wallet. Good thing i already moved most ! You hearing anything???