Welcome to our 101 Episode on everyone's favorite bad guy, Ripple! 

Brent and Karim sit down to explore the history of Ripple, the problems it solves, and how its able to accomplish such incredible high transactions per second. Brent even explains how some of his previously held assumptions about Ripple changed as his research deepened. Is Ripple worth looking at? What makes it so fast? Is it too centralized? And what's Brent's adorable new nickname? Listen to the episode to find out!