RE: Is XRP Really All It's Cracked Up To Be?

Now this was called Ripple at the time

I was always called XRP.
Ripple is the corporation/LLC/foundation that built the XRP token.

It's also important to note that XRP is actully very centralized in terms of it's block validations. While there are a little over 100 active validators most are handled by just 35 nodes.

That's more than Hive :D

I admit I don't know how XRP consensus works, but we have to acknowledge that it's not how many validators there are but rather how they are chosen by the algorithm that governs the network.

Why have a stablecoin token on XRP when XRP in itself was suppose to be the acting transaction token. What value does XRP have anymore at that point?

You already answered this question later:

Another big thing to note is that XRP already has printed all of it's tokens

A stable-coin can be printed to infinity and trusts that USD will be stable.
There will only ever be 100B XRP hardcap.

I haven't owed XRP since 2018... and even then it was just 100 tokens.
I do respect their strong community though and would like to see them succeed.