Is there any truth to that? If that's declared to be the case then they're in for quite the ride.
No one's ever been able to explain to me how the fuck XRP ever snuck into the crypto market in the first place. Almost everything about it is the very antithesis of it.
As for Satoshi's disappearance, beyond its creation it's the wisest act he ever carried out. It's one of the reasons BTC will remain the gold standard.
They did not snuck in, they just started offering people FREE Ripple for their Facebook identity and a lot of gullible people fell for that offer and
linked their real identity to those tokens. So from the start, Ripple went out to destroy anonymity and to bend over to the regulatory authorities
to get traction in the market. They even went to the Banks and begged them to use Ripple.