Ripple XRP CIA Officer BITCOIN GOES TO ZERO - XRP Replaces SWIFT! (EPIC CRYPTO NEWS)

Añadido: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]In March of 2022, the United States did something every country on Earth had to pay attention to. They froze over 300 billion dollars of Russia's reserves by cutting Russian banks off from the Swift network. And overnight, the global financial system proved that it was under the control of a few key players.

[00:00:21]And once you've seen this stuff, you can't unsee it because if you don't control that system or the levers, you don't control your money. So, China, Russia, and five other economies started building their exits. And the crazy part is a former CIA agent, Andrew Bamante, predicted the exact system that would replace Swift. And he said it would not run on Bitcoin. What's even more interesting is that every single thing he said is unfolding right now. And I found a Brad Garlinghouse clip from 2019 where he lays out the future for XRP, but most XRP holders never saw it or just forgot it existed. So, if you're feeling blessed and bullish, comment 777. And if you're going to be the first and most successful wealthy millionaire in your family tree, smash the subscribe button. Also, we're giving away our 2026 altcoin trading strategies and crypto yield generation blueprint to everyone who follows us on Instagram at Bullrunners. The official link will be in the description below this video.

[00:01:25]Now, let's run it.

[00:01:34]>> Hello and welcome back to the Bullrunner channel. If you're new here, my name is Paul. You can find me on Twitter or x@ cryptoaul. Now, before I show you what Bamonte said, I need you to understand why he even matters. Bamonte is a United States Air Force Academy graduate, decorated combat veteran, and spent 7 years as an operations officer for the CIA. This is a man whose entire career was reading how power moves before it moves publicly. So, why would a CIA officer be tracking payment networks?

[00:02:06]Because the second the US froze over $300 billion in Russian reserves, every non-western country understood one thing. If your reserves can be frozen overnight, you are a client state of whoever controls the network. So the biggest economies on Earth quietly built their exits. We're talking Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa all went together and they formed a financial alliance called Bricks. They started building their own crossber payment system designed to bypass the dollar entirely, bricks pay. Then China supercharged their own version of Swift called SIPs and Russia expanded their internal banking system called SPFS or system for transmitting financial messages. Now before 2022, less than 2% of trade between Russia and China was settled in their own currencies. Almost all of it ran through dollars. But their need was real and urgent. And now over 99% of trade between Russia and China are settled in rubles and yuan, not in dollars. This is a 50x shift in just under four years. That's the speed of the migration nobody on mainstream TV is talking about and a power vacuum that this CIA officer would track. Because when the current system breaks, the question is what fills it and who controls it? And here's what Bamante said.

[00:03:34]>> A centralized currency is the only currency that any government ever is going to actually adopt and and reward because governments need to make money off of their centralization of that currency. Bitcoin could literally end tomorrow. We have no control over it. If everybody just decides they don't like Bitcoin anymore, tomorrow the value becomes zero.

[00:03:59]>> Listen to that again. The next payment network is not going to be Bitcoin. And once you understand what banks actually need, you'll see why. Because imagine a bank trying to settle a single day of crossborder payments on Bitcoin. And between all of the networks, Bitcoin is sitting at 7TPS or transactions per second. Even back in the day, Ethereum was congested and clogged, processing 20 transactions per second. Visa can move up to 65,000 per second, but on average is sitting at 24,000 per second, while Ripple is sitting at 1,500.

[00:04:35]We're talking billions of payments every single day that would be needed to be processed. So, the network wouldn't break within hours. The problem with Bitcoin is it's just too slow. And even if it could handle the volume, every single payment still takes 10 minutes or more to confirm safely. Hence, seven transactions per second. You don't want to run a global financial system on a chain where your wire transfer takes longer than your Starbucks order. Then there's a bigger problem. Bitcoin currently can't host tokenized treasuries, and it can't host stable coins natively. Every single time it's been tried, it's simply not feasible for the amount of demand that stable coins truly have. So, the entire migration to tokenized assets doesn't make sense to run on Bitcoin. But at the end of the day, Bitcoin was never built to do all of this. And let's just say a bank could overlook all of that. Then there's the part that kills the conversation before it even starts because there's no company behind Bitcoin for banks to call. There's no CEO, no headquarters, no one to sit across the table from.

[00:05:39]Governments and banks want someone they can audit, sue, or hold accountable. But Bitcoin offers none of that. So if it's not Bitcoin, then what is it? Well, the chains that actually fit the profile are different. They comply with regulators.

[00:05:54]They clear in seconds instead of minutes, and they support tokenized treasuries and stable coins natively.

[00:06:00]Banks can plug into them without losing control. And XRP fits every single one of those boxes. So does Salana, HAR, Cardano. And this is also what the man interviewing Booamante actually said.

[00:06:14]you know, when I see things like XRP and >> Salana and HAR and um Ethereum, you know, uh Cardano, I mean, there there's a handful of them that big institutions are considering replacing the Swift, you know, crossber payment technology with.

[00:06:34]>> But here's the part most people miss.

[00:06:36]Bamante said this years ago, the networks he predicted, they're already running. Swift has been forced to plug into them and Ripple has been positioning XRP for this exact moment for over a decade because on November 22nd of 2025, all 11,000 banks on the Swift network migrated to a new global banking language called ISO 222.

[00:07:02]Most XRP holders know this part, but here's where it gets interesting. Ripple joined ISO 222 back in May of 2020. They were the first distributed ledger company to do it, 5 years before Swift was forced to migrate. So when November 22nd came around, every one of those 11,000 banks started working on the exact format Ripple Net was engineered to handle from day one. The infrastructure just became natively compatible. Around the same time, Swift integrated with Chainlink. If you don't know what chain link is, it's basically the glue that connects different blockchains, including the XRPL.

[00:07:43]This is otherwise known as an oracle for data centralization and confirmation.

[00:07:49]So, you and I get accurate data, especially when it comes to finances.

[00:07:53]Imagine one day you log into your bank account and you have $10,000. The next day it looks like $8,200, but you didn't spend a dime. That would be an inaccurate data source or there was blatant fraud. But you don't expect that number to change unless you spend the money. Now imagine this happening at scale. Money moving to the tune of trillions of dollars back and forth between loads of people. You need accurate data sources and oracles. And this is exactly what chain link was designed to do except on the blockchain.

[00:08:26]In other words, Swift made a vote of confidence in the blockchain by integrating Chainlink into their ecosystem. And it's probably because they realized if you can't beat them, join them. So follow the trail. 11,000 banks now speak Ripple's language. Swift plugs into Chain Link. Chain Link plugs into the XRPPL. Essentially, what this means is that Swift just became the front door to a settlement network where XRP is one of the networks positioned to do the actual work. And the CIA officer called this years before any banks migrated. Now, if you're an XRP holder watching right now, this is good news.

[00:09:05]And what I'm about to show you in a minute is even bigger than what you just saw. But I also know what you've been through these last few months and years because I've been there. the crashes, the lawsuits, watching everyone else's bags run while XRP sat still for years.

[00:09:20]And even on the days XRP went up, your bank account looked exactly the same.

[00:09:26]You aren't bleeding out because you picked the wrong coin. You just picked the right coin, but instead, you're bleeding out because you don't have a system in place. And you're stuck in the same loop most people in crypto are stuck in. Hold and hope. You stare at the chart. you hesitate to take profits because you don't know if it's a local top or if it's the all-time high. And to be fair, nobody knew the all-time high was going to come in at $3.66.

[00:09:52]So, what you do is you scroll on Twitter at 2 a.m. hoping someone smarter than you has the answer. And to be honest, it's exhausting because everyone has different answers. But that doesn't happen because you're a bad investor.

[00:10:04]You're probably a smart person. You just don't have a system. Think about it like this. If Lewis Hamilton, who's one of the best F1 drivers to ever have lived, had to race in a Honda Civic, he's never going to win and he'll always lose. It doesn't matter how good he is or how many years he's been driving. The car simply isn't built for it. And this is a good example of how most XRP holders operate right now. They have the right thesis, the right coin, but their strategy is the wrong vehicle for the race to build generational wealth. But there's a way to generate yield and make passive income on your XRP while you're holding it. So your bags don't just sit there waiting for one candle to fix your life. And better yet, your stomach doesn't drop every single time the chart crashes like it did here in October for nearly 50% or yet again from this range and drop from 236 all the way down to $1.13.

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[00:12:04]So watch it and if it makes sense, be sure to click that link to book a call and we'll get back to you within 72 hours. If you get on the call and it isn't a right fit, we'll be the very first ones to tell you straight. Now, I want to show you a conversation from 2019 that most XRP holders have never seen or have forgotten about completely.

[00:12:23]On stage we have the CEO of Swift, Gotfrieded Live Brand, who is sitting across from Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse. And then he says this, >> I mean, a big part of the of the value proposition of Ripple, I think, is the cryptocurrency, the XRP.

[00:12:39]>> So, the CEO of Swift admitted that XRP is one of the most important things Ripple has. But then he tried to walk it back and said banks weren't ready for XRP because of volatility. And Garlinghouse didn't let it slide.

[00:12:53]Volatility is just a mathematical calculation of time times volatility. If you hold fiat for say an average swift transaction today's in the order of magnitude 2 days, that's about 180,000 seconds. An XRP transaction is 3 seconds. So if you take a low volatile asset times a long duration fiat or a high volatility asset versus a very very short amount of time, it turns out mathematically there's less volatility risk in an XRP transaction than there is in a fiat transaction. And that was the moment the volatility argument died on stage. But the CEO of Swift actually said the main problem was regulation.

[00:13:30]Now remember this was back in 2019. And since then over 120 crypto organizations including Coinbase, Ripple, Kraken, and Circle have been pushing for the final piece clear rules in the United States.

[00:13:44]And it just happened because on May 14th, 2026, the Clarity Act passed the Senate Banking Committee 15-9. So, it's now headed to a full Senate floor vote and then a final House vote. Once it clears, institutions stop guessing. But if you're waiting for the rules to drop before you move, you're already behind because smart money is already positioning right now. That's why they stay ahead before the reset, before the chart turns green, and before most people realize they were left behind in the red. And I know exactly what this feels like because back in 2017, I watched my portfolio rip past $150,000, then bleed out all the way back down. I roundted that bag. Not because I picked the wrong coins. I just didn't have a system or a strategy in place. And I didn't have a single person in my corner who'd been through it before. I was looking at YouTube and Twitter trying to figure it all out and most people had diamond hands. They told me to hold forever and so I did. However, if I had learned to apply any form of a strategy, I would have come out a lot better in the next bull market compounding upon my gains. And I know I'm not the only one this happens to because I hear it all the time inside the community. That's one of our members, Rob. And we helped him avoid losing over half of his portfolio from holding because he had the exact system I wished I had in 2017.

[00:15:11]But back then, I didn't. So, I had to figure it out the hard way. And the thing that kept me going was the vision of my life I wanted to live. I had posters all over my room saying, "We're going to make it." That crypto would get me there. I wanted to be able to travel, to have freedom and financial peace. And today, I actually get to live that life.

[00:15:29]And it's not like I completely changed everything to make that happen, but there were two things that made all the difference. Having a real system in place and surrounding myself with people who were even better at crypto than I was. For example, people like Ryan, who helped lead a billion-dollar crypto project before he joined our team. He's been on stages at big crypto conferences. And that's why we built this private intelligence community to give you the system, the team, and a coach in your corner who's already walked the same path. Inside, we teach people how to earn yield on their crypto. So, they're making hundreds of dollars a month in passive income, sometimes far more, but we can't overpromise and underdel. And also, we can't make financial guarantees. But even when the market is going down or ranging sideways, you can still earn in this market. That's Michael who is also in our community. And it's important to say these results aren't typical. So don't be typical and do your own research. However, if you're ready to position yourself before this window closes, the first link down in the description below takes you to that free training. Watch it and if it makes sense, book a call with my team. And remember, what you do in the next few months is going to set you up for the rest of your life like it did for me. Or you're going to forever regret that you didn't catch the wave that's about to happen. But that is it for the video, folks. Be sure to subscribe because things go a lot deeper. And as always, I'll see you at the top. Stay bullish and goodbye.