Ripple's XRP Ledger experienced a significant data loss in 2012, with headers for 32,569 ledgers missing due to a bug, as confirmed by Ripple Founder Joel Katz. This issue, which affected 534 transactions, left the first fully verifiable ledger as number 32,570, dated January 1, 2013. The missing data impacts the transparency of XRP's transaction history, particularly concerning the pre-mined 100 billion coins. Despite efforts to recover the data in 2013, the information remains irretrievable. The problem resurfaced in 2025 when the XRP Ledger halted for 64 minutes due to validator disagreement. While Ripple insiders acknowledged the failure, they downplayed its significance, and some observers noted that similar issues have occurred with other blockchain projects.