I’ve never doubted where fuzzybear:native and ripple:native will take us. However, these last couple months have been the very first time I’ve actually questioned myself, my decisions, and my positions. I went from having (through fault of my own this time 🤣) a nice, small, modest safe life for my family and I. to having almost nothing. We live in a small 12 x 32’ shed that I mostly finished out, that is 100% off grid. Everything I used to build the house, the solar system, the rain catchment system, electrical, plumbing etc. is all stuff I either found in random dumpsters around town or found secondhand or incredibly cheap. I even used a handheld electric planer on nearly 400 pieces of lumber to make it look better and use it in our home 🏠 😩 My fiancé cannot work right now. I’m working on my family’s farm after my grandfather passed away and I’m the last man in line to try to keep it going. I could quit right now and go find a high paying job and we’d probably be OK. But in an attempt to not lose everything, he built, and with my wife’s encouragement, I put my wife and her son in an apartment so they don’t have to live as rough as me until we figure out how to keep our family farm running. All of this to say, you can be beaten, bruised, down and out. But if you are working towards something you love. Or for your family. And arguably for yourself, it’s nearly impossible to fail. It may feel like the pain will never end… and these last couple months have sure as hell felt like that… But with God Almighty, and my family beside me. I will not fail. And I will not let them down. My birthday is in 8 1/2 hours. I am making a vow right now, that by this time next year, not just me and my family, but you and YOUR 🫵🏻families are going to finally wake up, and not have to worry about how to afford groceries. Or what happens if you get a flat tire. Or worry that one tiny emergency could absolutely ruin your well-being. I see the light at the end of the tunnel. And a lot of the fuzzybear:native family I’ve come to know are fighting like hell just like I am to get to the end of it. And we WILL. 💚 🚀 🌖

At some point the concept of cross-border “settlement” will click. An obvious example A foreign agent cannot take your network’s deposit token. That token is a credit on your book. The agent is not on your book. There is no account to post to. The message arrives. The value does not. What the agent can take is a reserved coin that already lives on a clerk neither of you own. Local cash. Dollar cash. Same tick. Until the payout can walk, you are still sending a check to someone who doesn’t bank with you. Payments remain in member networks - Settlement occurs on neutral clerks in between them

I'M BATMAN!!!😎🇺🇸

PNC?!

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There are definitely fuzzies into the same stuff as you. Sometimes a convo isn’t needed because 2 people innerstand the same thing & so a simple “like” on the post says it all lol. I guess if you want back and forth convo then you could ask questions in your posts, cos the way they are structured is you sharing your perspective - and when I read them for eg I’ve come to a lot of the same inner knowings, so when I see it then I just like it but don’t feel the need to say much more 🫶

Early bird gets the worm, second mouse gets the cheese 🧀