Rock & Roll’s Biggest Cheat: Ripple CTO Fakes Fan Questions for Ozzy Osbourne 😂

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So, here’s a little nugget of info for you, folks. David Schwartz, the CTO of Ripple, has come clean about a bit of a youthful indiscretion involving none other than the Prince of Darkness himself, Ozzy Osbourne. 🤭

“I cheated,” Swartz confessed in an X post, sounding more like a kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar than a tech whiz. 🍪

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“I specifically asked the moderators to give me questions that weren’t for Ozzy. There just weren’t any,” Schwartz lamented, feeling a bit left out for the rest of the band. 😢

To keep things moving, Schwartz had a stash of pre-written “canned questions” ready to go. “I passed a canned question to each of the other band members in rotation. And I mixed what I could make out of what they said with the canned answer from their manager,” he admitted, sounding a bit sheepish. 🐑

“At the time, I felt really bad about the whole thing. It wasn’t the authentic interaction with celebrities that I wanted it to be and that I tried to make it,” he said, adding that only a couple of genuine fan questions ever reached the band. 🤷‍♂️

The Great C-Word Censorship

And if that wasn’t enough, Schwartz also revealed that he had to do a bit of cleaning up when it came to Ozzy’s responses. “Ozzy’s answer featured the C-word a lot. The bad C-word. The one that Americans really don’t like to say. It was pretty close to the only word I could hear clearly,” he confessed. 🙈

“I typed up Ozzy’s answer as closely as I could, probably getting it way off due to the poor connection quality. I censored the C-words,” he added, probably feeling a bit like a school librarian. 📚

Meanwhile, in the world of cryptocurrencies, memecoins inspired by Ozzy have been going through the roof, with one called The Mad Man (OZZY) soaring over 16,800% to trade at $0.003851 and hitting a market cap of $3.85 million. Who knew Ozzy had such a knack for crypto? 💸

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2025-07-26 06:45