R3’s Corda More Like Bitcoin Without Blockchain Says Peter Todd
When it seems like opening its Blockchain to all is the right thing for R3 consortium to do, considering all that it has endured in the month of November, Bitcoin Core Developer and Advisor to Coinkite, Peter Todd, cites that it has similarities with Bitcoin. R3 today announced that it has made the Corda distributed ledger platform open source so that it may grant the global developer community universal access to its source code. It is hoped that this will encourage collaboration and contribution from developers, and provide a review of the platform. The idea is to enable more companies....
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Peter Todd recently tweeted about the launch of Corda, R3CEV's distributed financial ledger technology, receiving mixed response from the cryptocurrency community. Peter Todd, the Core Bitcoin Developer has recently tweeted about his work with R3CEV, the New York-based fintech company responsible for the development of blockchain technology that banking consortium. His tweet comes at the time R3CEV announced the release of its distributed ledger technology, Corda built using the blockchain technology originally introduced by Bitcoin. R3CEV is a New York-based fintech innovation company....
Developer Peter Todd has caused quite a stir in the community by committing a double spend on Coinbase. Taking $10 from the company and buying Jeremy Gardner of the Augur project some reddit gold. Todd admitted to the action via Twitter and GitHub with the crack he created. At this time, Gardner says he and Todd were conversing, and Todd had decided to “make a point about security in the industry” Gardner goes on to say that he had succeeded on his first try and was able also to snap a screenshot of the action. Many people in the community went crazy on Twitter following this announcement.....
Bitcoin Core contributor Peter Todd recently discussed a variety of topics on The Crypto Show. Todd was asked if he is still worried about the possibly negative implications of a controversial hard fork induced by Bitcoin Classic or any other alternative Bitcoin client. said he is still worried about a hard fork due to some larger block size limit supporters who seem willing to “fork Bitcoin at all costs.” When Todd was first asked how he felt about his hard fork worries, he brought up the fact that some parts of the Bitcoin community seem ready to fork the blockchain no matter what. He....
Core developer Peter Todd is known for his forthright ideas on how to improve the security and stability of bitcoin, while staying true to the technology's decentralised roots. An avid Twitter user and conference regular, Todd has worked on everything from off-chain transactions and privacy-enhancing stealth addresses to '2.0' projects like Viacoin, Counterparty and coloured coins. In this video, he discusses his first experiences with bitcoin and precursor Hashcash and I ask how centralisation, regulation and scalability might shape bitcoin's future. View the full video interview below:....
The US government is trying to recruit blockchain developers to consult on blockchain and bitcoin developments. This should come as no surprise considering the interest in blockchain technology demonstrated by the world’s largest banks via the R3 CEV project, and the largest technology firms via the Hyperledger Project. The biggest names in banking and technology – from Wells Fargo to IBM – have entered the blockchain space. As Peter Todd, longtime Bitcoin developer, tweeted: “Lol, just got off a call re: a consulting gig for a US govt. project to do sentiment analysis on BTC blockchain....