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Ripple Brings Real Time Payments to the US

Payment network Ripple Labs just snagged is to U.S. banks closer to its goal of frictionless payments worldwide.  CBW Bank and Cross River Bank, based in Kansas and New Jersey respectively, will be using Ripple to making global money transfers and payments… Ripple

US Banks: Why We Embraced Ripple

In conversations with CoinDesk, executives from both banks explained why protocols like Ripple are a step toward what could become an “Internet of money”, and how these systems can change the way people send money around the world… Ripple

The Internet’s Missing Link

Just as we needed a way to freely share information, we needed a way to freely exchange value. Implementing a standardized payment protocol was a natural fit. But while data can live in a world where it’s easily reproduced, value inherently exists as the result of scarcity… Ripple

Ripple Unveils Next-Generation System for Digital Transaction Consensus

A recently released white paper from Ripple Labs examines how decentralized mechanisms can prevent bad actors in a block chain payments system from creating fake transactions. The Ripple Protocol consensus algorithm (RPCA) uses a node election system to establish the veracity of new transactions, adding them to a continuous chain of closed transactions that are considered absolute… Ripple

Ripple Launches SmartyCard Visa Debit with Rewards Points

The Ripple Gateway SnapSwap.EU will be changing the playing ground for all of these cards however with the launch of the new SmartyCard. The new card is for non-US citizens, a Visa prepaid card on the Ripple network. Anyone with a SnapSwap account simply has to fund the card from that account with any asset available in the Ripple […]

Slasher Ghost, and Other Developments in Proof of Stake

Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir and Zack Hess for ongoing research and discussions on proof-of-stake algorithms and their own input into Slasher-like proposals One of the hardest problems in cryptocurrency development is that of devising effective consensus algorithms. Certainly, relatively passable default options exist. At the very least it is possible to rely on a […]

Die Angst der Banker vor der Wolke

Wegen der NSA-Affäre misstrauen viele Banker den vielversprechenden Cloud-Lösungen. Das besagt eine Studie der Banken-IT-Firma Temenos. Schluss mit kostspieligen Datenspeichern und Verbindungsproblemen: Den «Cloud»-Lösungen wird im immer stärker IT … temenos – Bing News