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The mev wars period showed just how sociopathic and ideologically driven some of those early cliques are. They were coders and technologists, had a lot of money, and willing to cover their incredible greed and lust for power and control with flimsy self serving pseudo intellectual nonsense.
Those were ethereum people but we never really hear about xrp people probably because there's so little activity, but as you say there must be very big early whales.