If you guys listen to ðºÞæ you will clearly miss MAD GAINS. Check his comments back from 2017 like he wanted everyone to sell XRP and got rekt early
Lmao i bet he went all in on bitconnect lol....
ðºÞæ stop bitching around people see your bullshit lol
Herefor your fairytale story
Unfortunately, due to a server bug, some history was lost. You can't trace all the way back to the genesis ledger. You can trace back to ledger 32,570. All history after the beta was opened is available. All that was lost was the ledger headers -- all the transactions are still available, so there's some hope that the history may still be recovered.
In each ledger, there is a header field that tracks the total amount of XRP in existence. It is easy to check that the total XRP in the ledger equals the amount in the header and that the header field equals the previous ledger's total less the total of all transaction fees. There are no mechanisms to create or destroy XRP and any change that did so would be immediately detectable.
All ledgers (after 32,570) are publicly available. Each ledger contains the hash of the previous ledger and all the transactions that were applied to turn the previous ledger into this ledger. Each transaction is signed by the account that issued it and is bundled in the ledger along with metadata explaining precisely what ledger entries it affected.
If, for example, XRP were to somehow appear, there would have to be an accepted ledger before the XRP appeared and an accepted ledger after the XRP appeared. All these ledgers would be signed by the majority of validators or they wouldn't have been accepted. In the first ledger after the XRP appeared, there would either have to be a transaction whose metadata included the increase in XRP or not. If not, then there is 100% conclusive evidence that a stated invariant was broken -- an account's balance may not be changed without a transaction whose metadata shows that change. If so, then there is still 100% conclusive evidence that a stated invariant was broken -- an account's metadata may only change the total XRP in the ledger by destroying its transaction fee.
This would all be conclusively provable by anyone who cared to look.
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