David Schwartz is laying it down again:
The XRP Ledger was built to thrive even without Ripple.
According to Ripple's CTO, the network doesn’t have a "backdoor" and can’t be shut down unilaterally by the company. The architecture was designed to operate independently and in a decentralized manner.
Schwartz also pointed out that Ripple only runs a small fraction of the validators and any major changes need network consensus.
This reinforces a notion that many are still hashing out:
$XRP and Ripple are connected, but they’re not exactly the same thing.
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