SEC set to sue Ripple with XRP in the crosshairs
Despite the company's protestations, it appears the SEC is the latest in a long line of plaintiffs. Ripple will be sued by the SEC for allegedly selling unlicensed securities in the form of XRP tokens, according to Fortune.In a move reminiscent of Coinbase's recent front-running of a New York Times expose of its alleged treatment of employees of color, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has taken the unusual step of posting to Twitter to seemingly legislate the issue in the court of public opinion.Today, the SEC voted to attack crypto. Chairman Jay Clayton - in his final act - is picking winners....
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One of the bigger contests to keep an eye on in the cryptocurrency market is without a doubt the smart contract race. With the ability to effectively decentralize, automate, and replace multiple trillion dollar industries it represents a sizable target for entrepreneurs and developers of all shapes and sizes to place their crosshairs. While the developers over at Blackcoin (specifically David Zimbeck) have technically already won this race (and I’ll get to that point in a minute) the race very much seems to be continuing with a number of major players still yet to put a working application....
By now, you may have already heard of Ripple, the new decentralized cryptocurrency project that has been making waves (pun intended) in the Bitcoin community. While Bitcoin allows anyone to hold, send and receive bitcoins over a decentralized network to and from anywhere in the world with extremely low fees, Ripple seeks to allow anyone to do the same thing with any other currency as well. In order to get started with Ripple, you will first need to open a Ripple wallet. Just like Bitcoin in 2009, there is currently only one Ripple client available, the official one at ripple.com, although....
It would be "advantageous for Ripple to operate in the U.K.,” said Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse.
At Bitcoin London yesterday, OpenCoin announced that Ripple users can now make bitcoin payments directly from the Ripple client. The so-called Bitcoin Bridge fulfils some of Ripple's promised functionality and connects its users to the whole bitcoin economy and ecosystem. This Bitcoin Bridge enables Ripple users to make payments in bitcoin without ever needing to hold any of the digital currency. Ripple's explanation video has shown that payments can egress the Ripple network in fiat currencies, plus bitcoin, via Ripple Gateways. That functionality is now there thanks to this new feature.....
Ripple Labs, the company that was expected to offer a stiff competition to Bitcoin with its Ripple (XRP) digital currency and Ripple Protocol seems to have fallen behind. Thanks to the recent crackdown by US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) where Ripple was slapped with a $700,000 fine for non-compliance of regulations while operating as a money services business and selling its virtual currency. FinCEN had found that the parent company of Ripple Labs - XRP II, LLC had willfully violated the Banking Secrecy Act by not implementing effective Anti-Money Laundering (AML) program.....