{"id":75478,"date":"2026-03-09T10:31:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T10:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=75478"},"modified":"2026-03-09T10:31:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T10:31:32","slug":"ripple-ceo-says-epstein-file-release-shows-they-were-afraid-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=75478","title":{"rendered":"Ripple CEO Says Epstein File Release Shows \u2018They Were Afraid Of Us\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A resurfaced clip from Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse\u2019s appearance at XRP Australia Sydney 2026 is drawing fresh attention after he linked Ripple\u2019s early battles to material in the latest Epstein document release. The comment matters because it reframes Ripple\u2019s long-running grievance in Washington and in crypto itself as something deeper than routine rivalry: a sign, Garlinghouse suggested, that parts of the industry saw Ripple as a real threat.<\/p>\n

Speaking on stage in Sydney on Feb. 27, Garlinghouse said Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen had long sounded \u201ca little conspiratorial\u201d about the forces lining up against the company. Then he added:<\/p>\n

\u201cNow that we have seen the public Epstein files, you\u2019re like, holy shit, he\u2019s kind of right. And what\u2019s interesting about it, they were afraid of us. They were afraid of us because the technology was ahead of its time and it was a threat. And they were trying to do things to put pressure on it. And again, I don\u2019t think I totally appreciated in the earliest days how prescient some of Chris\u2019s concerns were about that stuff. But in retrospect, it was.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"\ud83e\udee1\" @bgarlinghouse<\/a> reveals:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe laughed off @chrislarsensf<\/a>\u2018s conspiracy theories back then. Then the Epstein files dropped.<\/p>\n

Holy sh*t he was right.<\/p>\n

They were afraid of us. The technology was ahead of its time, and powerful people were actively trying to suppress it. #XRP<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/qKVriTd262<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Xaif Crypto\"\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3\"|\"\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\" (@Xaif_Crypto) March 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Connection Between Ripple And Epstein<\/h2>\n

The video is only now circulating widely in XRP circles, but the backdrop is the Justice Department\u2019s Jan. 30 release of more than 3 million additional pages under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.<\/p>\n

Expert Claims Ripple Is Next to Secure Fed Master Account After Kraken Win\u2014 Here\u2019s Why<\/a><\/p>\n

What, exactly, is the Ripple connection? Not a disclosed business partnership<\/a> with Epstein, and not evidence that Epstein directed action against Ripple. The link comes from a 2014 email that surfaced in the file dump. Austin Hill, then a Blockstream co-founder, emailed Jeffrey Epstein and Joichi Ito, with Reid Hoffman copied, to complain about investor support for Ripple and Stellar. The email framed those rival projects as harmful to the Bitcoin-focused ecosystem Blockstream was trying to build and pushed recipients to reconsider their allocations.<\/p>\n

That distinction is crucial. Ripple appears in the documents because it was part of an early power struggle over which crypto networks and companies would win capital, talent and legitimacy. In one quoted passage from the 2014 correspondence, Hill wrote: \u201cRipple, and Jed\u2019s new Stellar are bad for the ecosystem we are building, and it does our company damage to have investors who are backing two horses in the same race.\u201d He then reportedly urged investors to \u201creduce or take your allocation away,\u201d effectively forcing a choice.<\/p>\n

The context around Epstein\u2019s presence on that chain is also more mundane, if no less uncomfortable for the industry. Fortune reported that emails in the DOJ release show Epstein had exposure to Blockstream<\/a> through a fund associated with former MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito, while the broader file dump has renewed scrutiny of Epstein\u2019s ties to early crypto investors, Bitcoin development circles and MIT-linked networks.<\/p>\n

That helps explain Garlinghouse\u2019s argument. His point was not that Epstein personally ran an anti-Ripple operation. It was that the newly public records seem to validate a long-held suspicion inside Ripple: that influential figures in the early Bitcoin orbit treated Ripple as something to be boxed out, not merely debated. Still, the released documentation stops well short of proving coordination with regulators or a hidden hand behind the SEC\u2019s later case<\/a> against Ripple.<\/p>\n

At press time, XRP traded at $1.34.<\/p>\n

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