David 'JoelKatz' Schwartz

SCAM ALERT: There has been a huge escalation lately in airdrop and giveaway scams targetting XRPL users lately. Any such posts you see are likely scams. Anyone claiming to be me on Instagram, Telegram, or almost anywhere else is likely a scammer. Stay safe XRP fam.

So sorry to hear about Dave Ramsey's financial and marital problems. I guess it really can happen to anyone.

Spinning an Euler disk. (Sound on!)

Shill your XRP and XRPL projects here in this thread. It is also fine to shill non-XRP(L) crypto projects or even non-crypto projects. Share what you're interested in. Here's the place for it.

Where would we be without those experts?

Recently, there's been a significant increase in people responding to replies of mine that have nothing to do with crypto with insults or crypto content. I hate to do it, but I pretty much have to block for this because otherwise the people I'm replying to have no choice but to block me. The irrelevant replies spam their followers. A significant fraction of these posts have been posts accusing me of fraud or scamming. I want to be clear that I will block for this whether your post is a criticism or a compliment. I absolutely don't mind people criticizing me or accusing me so long as it doesn't reduce to slurs and has some actual content. Just please do it in your own threads or do it in replies to my threads where it has some kind of relevance, at least a little. Stalking me around X to find places where I'm talking on other people's threads to say "scammer" or even "XRP is great!" angers the people I'm replying to, and that I will not tolerate. If you were blocked for this and promise not to do it again, find some way to get my attention and I'll unblock you, even if you absolutely hate me and think I'm worse than the devil. Just don't use me to spam other people's followers. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

I picked the right time to retire!

My hub currently has over 550 happy peer connections. Median peer application-to-application round-trip latency is around 200ms and incoming message rate is about 110,000 peer messages per second.

Low effort costumes, but we think we look cute.

At one time, I believed as many do that, as @DefendOurJuries puts it, "juries have an absolute right to acuit a defendant according to their conscience". But I no longer do. And the primary reason is that a justice system built around this principle (and ours most definitely is not) would be incredibly unfair to the accused. Think through the second-order effects of actually accepting this principle. For example, if we really do believe and accept that it is perfectly reasonable for a jury to find a person not guilty, even if they believe all elements of the charged crime are satisfied, because they cannot vote guilty with a clear conscience, then *any* evidence that would let the jury vote guilty with a clear conscience is relevant and should be subject to the normal rules of admissibility. Was the accused a bully in high school? I don't like bullies. If a person is charged with a minor drug possession offense that many jury members might not think should be a crime at all, knowing that might help me vote guilty with a clear conscience. If we generally believe that information should be relevant to my decision, why should it not be admissible? And what about evidence that drug use leads to traffic accidents that kill innocent children? That's relevant to deciding your conscience permits convicting a person for a simple drug possession offense, isn't it? So is that now admissible in drug possession trials? We either believe it's perfectly permissible for juries to vote their convictions or we don't. And if we do, it has to be permissible for prosecutors to present argument and evidence that in this particular case, you can vote guilty with a clear conscience. And that would almost literally destroy our justice system.

What about people who show up purely to support the right to peaceful political protest and to protest the fascist attempt to restrict it? Will you arrest them too?