Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz, widely known on X as @JoelKatz, has triggered fresh controversy in the XRP Ledger community after changing his profile picture to a fuzzy bear image associated with the meme coin FUZZY. The move reignited discussions about crypto influencer responsibility, meme coin speculation, and the impact public figures can have on low-liquidity digital assets. The debate intensified because Schwartz had recently criticized meme coin investing, describing it as distasteful and warning against treating speculative XRP Ledger tokens as legitimate investments. Before the… Read more






