President Trump is going on Twitter/X Monday night for an interview (or maybe more of a chat?) with Elon Musk.
Expectations are the move will “break the Internet” and I have to agree.
President Trump made the announcement on his TruthSocial:
Buckle up pic.twitter.com/IGxUoQ5jD3
— HIS GLORY (@HISGLORYME) August 6, 2024
He also talked about it at his Mar-a-Lago presser:
BREAKING: Donald Trump confirms he will join an XSpace with Elon Musk on Monday night pic.twitter.com/P41VCNN0aA
— Adrian Dittmann (@AdrianDittmann) August 8, 2024
This is going to be absolutely incredible and I can’t wait to tune in.
But what are they going to talk about?
Will it just be open-ended, or will there be some agenda?
Maybe President Trump is just going on Twitter to tell Elon how much he loves his new Cybertruck 🤣:
Trump is a fan of the Cybertruck 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/rZ9THRrz37
— Elon Musk (Parody) (@ElonMuskAOC) August 5, 2024
But in all seriousness, speculation is mounting that the move will actual center around banking, crypto, defi and eliminating “debanking” for Conservatives.
Don Jr. himself Tweeted this shortly after the Monday night interview was announced:
Big things coming. This is the future!!! https://t.co/6RPuPD6Mq5
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 6, 2024
I wonder if it’s all tied into Elon’s vision to bring Payments and Banking into Twitter/X.
And….I wonder if he will finally announce that it will all be powered by XRP.
After all, Elon does have quite a fascination with “X” doesn’t he?
SpaceX?
Twitter/X?
A child named X.
X-AI
X.com
The Model X
He really seems to love that letter.
Time to add “XRP” to the list?
More on that in a minute….
Many are starting to connect the dots that Trump/Elon/Payments/Banking may all soon be coming together:
Anyone else putting this together?
Xrp lawsuit is over
Trump endorsing crypto
Elon endorsing Trump
Trump and Elon Public meeting Monday.
Details on X payments yet to be announced.
Elon has said- if done right X payments will dominate the financial sector$XRP #ISO20022 pic.twitter.com/ZmBVd3S0mD
— Hank hill (@Hankhill7373) August 9, 2024
Elon has talked for a long time about his dream to bring Payments and Banking onto Twitter/X.
In fact, you have to remember that Elon began his career in payments by starting PayPal.
Perhaps everything else has just been a very long detour to finally get back to his dream of fixing payments and having an “Everything App”.
⚡️BREAKING: Elon Musk's X almost ready to launch Payments very soon! pic.twitter.com/rv0rsfPkVn
— Radar🚨 (@RadarHits) August 7, 2024
Will it all be powered by XRP?
Many think so:
🚨 BREAKING:
PRO-XRP LAWYER ASKS ELON MUSK TO INTEGRATE #XRP TO X PAYMENTS!https://t.co/TNhzLRzynQ pic.twitter.com/4jwsCSDr69
— 𝓐𝓶𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓮 (@_Crypto_Barbie) August 8, 2024
Wonder if X payments has any relativity to XRP ..
Trump and Elon getting together Monday.Trump family seems to know something… pic.twitter.com/akwtVTCrgD
— Hank hill (@Hankhill7373) August 9, 2024
Elon and his team at Twitter have been very busy getting payments licenses in each state:
X (Twitter) reportedly receives payment service license in Maryland
Elon Musk's social platform has obtained a money transmitter license for providing payment services in Maryland, US. pic.twitter.com/Ekii6qWEjv
— Jack Straw (@JackStr42679640) August 19, 2023
Update on X Payments: @X receives Pennsylvania and Utah Money Transmitter Licenses.
Elon Musk's social media platform @X took a step closer to offering payment features after receiving a money-transmitter license from a 13th and 14th U.S. state this week.
"In order to offer… pic.twitter.com/Md4eNmTYSA
— MartyParty (@martypartymusic) January 15, 2024
BREAKING: Elon got a new currency license.
🚀 On track for X Payments and a big creator world.
Why the algorithm talk? Knowing it = future success.
1.Subscriptionshttps://t.co/mO1rdl0Bt9 share revenue
3.X Payments – the big step.Good content will earn you more. pic.twitter.com/7ZpkYegHnf
— fity.eth (@Fityeth) September 5, 2023
It’s just like Pokemon….have to collect them all!
So far, he has at least 25 states and counting:
💥ELON MUSK'S X now has a Money TRANSMITTER LICENSE in 25 States🇺🇸💥
According to Christopher Stanley, the Head of Payments at X, the platform's payment capabilities will extend far beyond simple tipping.
Users can soon store money in their X Wallet, send funds to other pic.twitter.com/Y4RfjudHhx— ISO 20022…. LET'S DO IT (@Rohitku24694375) April 29, 2024
Listen here as Elon discusses the future of payments on X with Cathie Wood:
Elon Musk on X payments with @CathieDWood
“We are just waiting for final approvals to come through for the money transmitter licenses…a majority of the states have approved us”@elonmusk said X will get approvals by early 2024. Payments expected to roll out by mid-next year pic.twitter.com/aZ0qEh9nkx
— Doge Whisperer 🐕 (@TDogewhisperer) December 22, 2023
Now let’s do a deeper dive into the connections between Elon Musk, “X” and XRP:
Elon Musk's Connection To "X" and XRP -- EXPOSED
With Elon Musk dominating the news and especially the Twitter news, I thought it was a good time to re-examine his origins in the online payments space, his connection to the letter "X", and his many connections to "XRP".
Shall we dig in?
To begin, let me just say flat out that Elon Musk is one of my favorite people on the planet.
Endlessly fascinating, endless value to society, endless creativity!
And now we know he's pro-Free Speech.
That's a good guy in my book.
In the crypto world, he's well known for supporting DOGE coin, but it's never totally made sense.
The smartest man on the planet is supporting a meme coin?
I want to take a moment and ask a question: what if the Digital Asset Investor is right and "all the world's a stage"?
What if Elon's fling with DOGE and all the Mainstream Media attention to BTC and ETH is just to keep you distracted while the real deal was going down?
It's not as crazy as it might sound, and the more you look behind the curtain the more dots seem to suddenly start connecting....
Let's take a deeper look....
Did you know Elon seems to have a fascination with the letter "X"?
Many people may not know he purchased and founded X.com which later was rebranded into PayPal:
I'm having a stupid moment but I had no idea Elon Musk founded X. com in 1999 (which later became PayPal)! God broke the mold with that man. I wish I had half his creativity.
— 𓆩♱𓆪𝓛𝓾𝓬𝓲𝓪 𓆩♱𓆪 (@SeptembersRain) December 18, 2021
https://twitter.com/Mo_Hrmz/status/1471818529016008718
Then he moved on to space and there's that letter again in SpaceX:
Elon Musk the Investor:
✅ Tesla (TSLA)
✅ SpaceX
✅ https://t.co/RzuMkwOrk1 / PayPal (PYPL)
✅ The Boring Company
✅ DeepMind
✅ Zip2 Corporation
✅ Neuralink
✅ SolarCity
✅ NeuroVigil
✅ CryptocurrencyJust to name a few.
Put some "respeck" on his name @elonmusk https://t.co/7jRGZdYQY8— Charlie Villanueva (@CVBelieve) December 13, 2021
Oh and what about Tesla you ask?
Well they just so happen to have a "Model X":
Tesla Motors Has Announced the Long-Awaited Tesla Model X SUV http://t.co/T42RsE791z pic.twitter.com/lQeirgdOve
— Laughing Squid (@LaughingSquid) September 30, 2015
Ok, ok....now I understand one letter does not a connection make.
But it's interesting and it's only our starting point.
Then we move beyond companies to his kid, who he named what else but X (and some other letters I don't quite know how to type on the keyboard):
Baby X Æ A-12 and @elonmusk accepting the Person of the year award. @TIME pic.twitter.com/O9BxNeUQm6
— Tesla Owners Silicon Valley (@teslaownersSV) December 14, 2021
This was hilarious:
https://twitter.com/PipingDilatPH/status/1470659356241063938
Now let's go back to PayPal...
Given his work at Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company, Neurolink and everything else, it's easy to forget Elon got his start in the PAYMENTS industry (PayPal).
Don't forget that.
Have to give credit to the Digital Asset Investor for being on this many months ago, and reminding us all of something called PayPal Galactic:
What Happened To @paypal Galactic? Last heard from in 2013. pic.twitter.com/nYGiqhg6EI
— Digital Asset Investor (@digitalassetbuy) August 20, 2021
And this:
"When private companies are building a new economy beyond our planet." Can you say intergalactic currency? Remember PayPal Galactic? Remember where @elonmusk started? Now @SpaceX Bitcoin is a distraction. All Planned. https://t.co/OyTvpqufaY
— Digital Asset Investor (@digitalassetbuy) June 17, 2021
And this:
Reminds me of this: pic.twitter.com/tOSG4aDNx7
— Digital Asset Investor (@digitalassetbuy) June 17, 2021
From Phys.org, talk of the first "intergalactic currency" started back in 2013 and was all about PayPal:
Earthbound financial transactions service PayPal launched a quest for an intergalactic currency, saying it is time to figure out what space travelers will use as cash.
"The time has now come for us to start planning for the future; a future where we aren't just talking about global payments," said PayPal president David Marcus. "We are expanding our vision off earth into space."
PayPal Galactic Initiative will be formally unveiled Thursday at the SETI Institute campus in the Silicon Valley city of Mountain View, with attendees to include famed alien seeker Jill Tarter and former US astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
The initiative, headed by PayPal, aims to bring together parties with roles to play in the commercialization of space to explore a framework for a financial system that spans galaxies.
You know who else was in the "PayPal Mafia" back in the very early days?
Big time XRP investor Peter Thiel.
Here he is back in 1999:
Peter Thiel, cofounder of @PayPal (with @elonmusk ) In 1999. This was planned long ago. @paypal Galactic announced in 2013.(Nobody has heard anything about it since) Same year Thiel's Founders Fund invests in @ripple to "Build a Better Bitcoin". Internet of Value. pic.twitter.com/haoKiTPDSQ
— Digital Asset Investor (@digitalassetbuy) May 21, 2021
Meet Luke Nosek. PayPal Mafia Member. He was also at the Founders Fund with Peter Thiel (PayPal Mafia Member) In 2013 When They Invested In @ripple PayPal Galactic has not been mentioned since 2013. This clip is from the WEF In Davos 2019👀👀👇👇👀👀👀👇👇👀👀 pic.twitter.com/VN2W5dQE3N
— Digital Asset Investor (@digitalassetbuy) May 8, 2021
Let's recap: you have the richest man and likely smartest man on the planet with his roots in the payments industry, obsessed with the letter X, starts talking about "PayPal Galactic" but then that suddenly disappears as XRP is created, a man all about energy efficiency and saving the planet.....and then we take a hard left turn and he's into DOG-COIN?
Really folks?
Now let's add one more connection that is almost too irresistible....
Of all the people/companies in the world, who are the first two that come to mind that hate the SEC?
Bingo:
“I do not respect the SEC”
-Elon & XRP Holders https://t.co/MVZS7Bv9PV— MrUseCase 🌎🇺🇸 (@MrUseCase) December 13, 2021
If you think this article is all pure speculation....it is, except it's not just me.
Others are beginning to make the connection.
Like XRP Bush:
my opinion only.
Elon has held XRP for a very long time.
Simply does not add up that he does not.
Connect the dots.
Way too obvious imho
Cheers~Rob, Venice Island https://t.co/rbBpJnq01n— XRP BUSH (@bush_xrp) December 15, 2021
And XRP Daddy:
@elonmusk knows a lot about finances, he was apart of the PayPal mafia.
He knows about @Ripple and $xrp
— XRP Daddy🌙 (@xrp_daddy_) December 18, 2021
And Mason Versluis:
Can't wait until Elon is not distracting us and talking about bullshit like #dogecoin
Can't wait until he is talking about $HBAR and $XRP and other green energy coins that have the potential to revolutionize the payments system & internet. https://t.co/vVg9qRyBcl
— MASON VERSLUIS (@MasonVersluis) December 13, 2021
And of course DAI who has been on this story for a long time:
Hey @elonmusk Justice goes both ways. Jay Clayton has a lot of explaining to do in giving Ethereum a Free Pass while all of crypto has been in purgatory. Please help us bring this to light. One tweet from you blows this story sky high. Thanks for the idea. @Leerzeit pic.twitter.com/7bxZAY3zla
— Digital Asset Investor (@digitalassetbuy) December 17, 2021
And now as people are connecting the dots and realizing that Elon hates the SEC as much as all the XRP holders who have been harmed by the SEC, calls are growing for Elon to get involved and blow the story wide open:
Like this rare non-satire Tweet from XRP the Standard Productions:
Hey @elonmusk, we’re getting railed by @SenWarren’s friend @GaryGensler and the @SECGov.
Wanna help us fight them?
Tweet one thing in support of #XRP.
That’s all we ask.
— XRPP (@XRP_Productions) December 15, 2021
And Stefan Huber:
Dear @elonmusk Jay Clayton forced you to resign as CEO of #Tesla because you allegedly manipulated the market. Now it turns out that the chairman of the SEC who took action against you was himself manipulating the market. Now we caught him lying & covering up his ties on @CNBC https://t.co/0LhnEtfgZp
— Mr. Huber🔥🦅🔥 (@Leerzeit) December 17, 2021
And the Spanish Billionaire:
Yes @elonmusk a billion dollar task force to investigate and expose #CORRUPTION in government what a great way to spend money I’d focus on the @SECGov first of all https://t.co/4XN8NCxwsr
— Spanishbillionaire (@Mekatachimoto) December 19, 2021
And Mark:
Come on @elonmusk help the little guy against corruption @SECGov https://t.co/baJsFnXGX9
— Mark - XRP is NOT a security (@xrpcoupe74) December 17, 2021
And my man Crypto Bull:
I would love for @elonmusk to support the #XRP community. I think he more than most understand how corrupt the SEC is!
— CryptoBull (@CryptoBull2020) December 17, 2021
If you want to go much deeper on this, the Digital Asset Investor put together an awesome video about a year ago doing a deep dive that is really worth your time.
Enjoy:
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