Ripple’s CTO Cooks Up a Two-Tier Staking Scheme-Because Blockchain Needs More Drama! 🎩💸

In a recent chinwag over on the internet’s front porch (November 19, to be precise), Schwartz spilled the beans on a two-tier staking system. The goal? Reward stakers while keepin’ the power-hungry validators from turnin’ XRPL into their private fiefdom. Noble, sure-but about as likely as a snowball survivin’ a trip through Texas in July. ❄️➡️🔥

Cloudflare\’s Epic Fail 🤦\u200d♂️

Unacceptable? That’s like saying the apocalypse is somewhat inconvenient 🤷‍♂️. Cloudflare handles a whopping 20% of internet traffic, and powers around one-third of the top 10,000 websites, apps, and services. That’s like being the internet’s main artery 💉. And when it gets blocked, chaos ensues 🌪️.

Bitcoin’s Woes: A Most Unfortunate November 💸

Mr. James Harris, a gentleman of some discernment at Tesseract, informs us that while history may suggest strength during this eleventh month, such numbers are, shall we say, “skewed.” A most unfortunate term, but one that conveys a certain…artfulness in its presentation. The current market, it seems, is anything but typical. A rather convenient excuse, perhaps? 🤔