• Schwartz has built and deployed a high-performance XRPL server in New York
• He clarified that what he’s doing is unaffiliated with Ripple but rather a project of his own, as he just wants to strengthen XRPL’s independence
• Despite his years away from directly managing XRPL infrastructure, Schwartz believes that the network’s current state makes a decentralized hub more essential than ever

David Schwartz, Ripple’s long-time CTO and one of the original architects of the XRP Ledger (XRPL), announced an unexpected personal return to running network infrastructure; not as a Ripple employee but as an independent operator.

He has built and deployed a high-performance XRPL server in New York, featuring AMD 9950X CPU, 256 GB RAM, multiple TBs of SSD/NVMe storage, a 10 Gbps unmetered connection, and an Ubuntu OS fully synced with the XRPL blockchain.

Schwartz emphasized that this node is not experimental and is intended as a robust, high-uptime production server meant to support validators and decentralized infrastructure. He clarified it’s unaffiliated with Ripple and that he’s doing this on his own, as he just wants to strengthen XRPL’s independenc…

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• Schwartz has built and deployed a high-performance XRPL server in New York
• He clarified that what he’s doing is unaffiliated with Ripple but rather a project of his own, as he just wants to strengthen XRPL’s independence
• Despite his years away from directly managing XRPL infrastructure, Schwartz believes that the network’s current state makes a decentralized hub more essential than ever

David Schwartz, Ripple’s long-time CTO and one of the original architects of the XRP Ledger (XRPL), announced an unexpected personal return to running network infrastructure; not as a Ripple employee but as an independent operator.

He has built and deployed a high-performance XRPL server in New York, featuring AMD 9950X CPU, 256 GB RAM, multiple TBs of SSD/NVMe storage, a 10 Gbps unmetered connection, and an Ubuntu OS fully synced with the XRPL blockchain.

Schwartz emphasized that this node is not experimental and is intended as a robust, high-uptime production server meant to support validators and decentralized infrastructure. He clarified it’s unaffiliated with Ripple and that he’s doing this on his own, as he just wants to strengthen XRPL’s independenc…

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