Ripple CTO David Schwartz recently made a post about the smallest number that takes 11 steps to reach 1, sparking community reactions and XRP price speculation. Ripple’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO), David Schwartz, recently set the XRP community abuzz with a cryptic tweet. Schwartz’s post contained a particularly strange stream of numbers. The tweet read: The post Ripple CTO 277,777,788,888,899 Cryptic Tweet Sparks XRP Price Speculation first appeared on The Crypto Basic .