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https://www.xrpchat.com/topic/5280-valuation-models-xrp-the-digital-currency-vs-ripple-the-company/Posted 3 hours ago
3 hours ago, Rchopra said:
Hi mate. Consensus is over but no biggie news as hinted by you... whats happening...? Did we miss something...
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Joel Katz
I am sorry that wound up misleading people. Let me explain what happened:
Originally, we were going to have three demos at consensus. XRP to ETH using ILP, Banking payments using XRP/paychan under ILP, and a demo of a future vision of a micropayment system over ILP.
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We were also going to do several corporation partnership/strategy announcements,
including the lockup and the new exchanges
and so on at consensus.
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It reached the point where there just weren't slots for all the demos or time to do the releases. And it wouldn't have given people time to track us down to discuss new partnerships and so on if those announcements motivated them to talk to us. Also, we expected everyone else to announce at consensus, so we might have gotten lost in the noise.
So the strategy changed. We announced more things before consensus and at some point, we just decided to announce pretty much everything before consensus to go in consensus on a high with everyone already wanting to talk to us about what we were doing.
The strategy, I think, worked well. We did enter consensus with a high level of excitement. Lots of people wanted to work for us, and we had lots of high-level talks with all kinds of people. We had lots of companies offer to run validators in lots of jurisdictions. It was awesome.
But the downside was that we didn't announce very much new at consensus, though that was the original plan.
Again, I apologize for misleading people. That was totally my fault. I was really excited about we had coming and really couldn't resist sharing my enthusiasm. I'd say I'll be more careful in the future, but I think that would be kind of a sad thing. Know that I will always try to be completely honest and say only what I genuinely believe but that sometimes things will change and that is beyond my control.
Joel all is gd, we are human ( for the time being..lol im planning on becoming a cyborg lol)
im sure everything you mentioned will have happened or will happen soon anyways
Thanks m8
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