Report Highlights 'Areas of Concern' in Ripple Protocol Design
A report commissioned by secretive distributed ledger consulting group R3CEV and authored by bitcoin developer Peter Todd has raised questions about the ability of the Ripple protocol to serve the needs of global financial institutions in its current iteration. The release notably comes at a time when Ripple Labs, the corporate entity overseeing the network, has been increasingly attracting the attention of legacy financial institutions interested in bitcoin and the wider blockchain ecosystem. Ripple Labs has raised $37m to date, and partnered with Commonwealth Bank, Fidor Bank and Western....
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A just published report from Bitcoin developer Peter Todd has exhibited a number of concerns in the Ripple protocol. The report has arrived at a time when Ripple Labs, the creator of the aforementioned protocol, has joined hands with multiple renowned corporates and financial institutions to innovate their global finance endeavors. The company has also received around $37 million in seed funding for expanding its cross border payment operations across the globe, a step that has further attracted firms like Commonwealth bank, Western Union and Fedor Bank towards utilizing the Ripple....
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Ripple Labs has sealed new partnerships that will bring its Ripple protocol to two US banks. According to the company's 24th September announcement, Kansas-based CBW Bank and Cross River Bank, located in New Jersey, will be the first American banks to adopt Ripple's open-source distributed transaction infrastructure. The news comes several months after Ripple inked its first deal with the banking sector, when German bank Fidor became the first institution of its kind to integrate the Ripple protocol. Like Fidor, CBW Bank and Cross River Bank will now be able to tap Ripple's low-cost....
Stanford "Professor" David Mazières believes he has developed a faster, more flexible, and more secure alternative (altcoin) to Bitcoin, and he released the design for his new protocol in a white paper last week. Bitcoin's distributed network - thousands of computers connected over the Internet - is a key component to that system's design, but the eccentric Mazières says that makes Bitcoin slower and less secure than the world's financial infrastructure should be. Mazières calls his new cryptocurrency protocol SCP, and the project is being adopted by a nonprofit called Stellar, whose....