Rippleâs learned legal maestro, the illustrious Stuart Alderoty, dispatched a barbed retort to their alleged subterfuge, decried via the social media mosaic that is the multifaceted behemoth known only as X, on the seventeenth of October. For a second diurnal cycle within the same fortnight, The New York Times-a bastion of literary clout but not, it seems, of perspicacity-once more depicted the noble art of cryptocurrency as nothing but a den of iniquity. âFor the second time, my good sir, in as many weeks, the Times has adorned us with a âguest essayâ which proffers crypto as naught but a sinister plaything for scoundrelsâŚâ resounded Alderoty’s sharp tap on the scales of public discourse, decrying a narrative that they aver is as whimsical as it is miserably contrived.