Over 75 people attended the Ripple Labs Tech Talk for understanding consensus—as part of our ongoing initiative to better educate the broader community about Ripple technology. Approaching the talk from both a technical and broader industry perspective, Chief Cryptographer David Schwartz discussed the role of innovative banks, the early influences of Bitcoin, and provided a […]
Photo: Christina/Flickr Since the beginning of recorded history, the process of standardization has set the stage for immense gains in collaboration, productivity, and innovation. Standards allow us to find collective harmony within a society that grows increasingly complex. Naturally, the first standards were ways of measuring time and space—from the Mayan Calendar to King Henry […]
We’re proud to announce the first release of our new Gateway Guide, a comprehensive manual to operating a gateway in the Ripple network. Whether you’re trying to understand how a gateway makes revenue, or how to use the authorized accounts feature, or even just what a warm wallet is, the gateway guide has you covered. […]
Ripple users can make payments to Bitcoin addresses directly from Ripple Trade. Here’s how it works: It’s that simple. We call it a “Bitcoin Bridge” and it gives Ripple users access to the entire Bitcoin economy. Please note that payments through the Bitcoin Bridge may take a significant amount of time to be processed. What […]
So I’m not sure if this kind of development methodology has ever been applied to such an extreme before so I figured I’d document it. In a nutshell, it’s sort of like test-driven triplet-programming development. While speed-developing our alpha codebase, four of us sat around a table in the office in Berlin. Three people (Vitalik, […]
Ripple Labs is thrilled to join the International Payments Framework Association (IPFA), which provides rules sets, best practices, and guidelines to improve cross-border payments. Composed of over 25 prominent members in the payments space—including the likes of ACH, NACHA, and SWIFT—the IPFA promotes a grand vision for creating a global payments framework that facilitates interoperability […]
I’m Vinay Gupta, the newly minted release coordinator for Ethereum. I’ve been working with the comms team on strategy, and have now come aboard to help smooth the release process. I’ll be about 50/50 on comms and on release coordination. A lot of that is going to be about keeping you updated on progress: new features, […]
I was woken by Vitalik’s call at 5:55 this morning; pitch black outside, nighttime was still upon us. Nonetheless, it was time to leave and this week had best start on the right foot. The 25-minute walk in darkness from the Zug-based headquarters to the train station was wet. Streetlights reflecting off the puddles on […]
One of the issues inherent in many kinds of consensus architectures is that although they can be made to be robust against attackers or collusions up to a certain size, if an attacker gets large enough they are still, fundamentally, exploitable. If attackers in a proof of work system have less than 25% of mining […]
Als die ersten Personal Computer eine breitere Nutzerbasis erreichten, gingen viele davon aus, dass der Nutzen für uns Menschen im Laufe der folgenden Jahre/Jahrzehnte groß sein werde. Der Mensch sollte in diesem Zusammenhang im Mittelpunkt stehen und Computer sollten das Leben der Menschen vereinfachen und verschönen. So war seinerzeit die utopische Erwartung. Inzwischen hat sich […]