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Bitcoin for the Underbanked

The Ripple protocol is a distributed exchange network that allows exchanges between any fiat currency as well digital currencies like bitcoins and ripples. Using this protocol, users in the U.S. can send dollars to places like Mexico, routing the transaction through the lowest-cost exchange path on the network, and have the payments converted into pesos […]

Powering Ripple and Helping Take C++ to the Next Level

Howard Hinnnat, C++ mensch The Ripple Labs employee spotlight is on Howard Hinnant this week, who is in Bellevue, Washington for cppcon, the inaugural conference for all things C++. Howard has been a prolific and long-time contributor to the C++ community as lead author of several C++11 features including move semantics, unique_ptr, and <chrono> API and has […]

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Ethereum: the decentralised platform that might displace today’s institutions

25 Aug 2014 by Primavera De Filippi, Raffaele Mauro on Ethereum Cryptocurrencies have now become commonplace in the online world. Although most of the media attention is focused on Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, or other decentralised payment systems, the true revolution is happening at a much deeper level, one that does not involve only money. Bitcoin’s […]

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You Can Now Use Ripple to Buy, Spend and Trade Gold

“Ripple changes the dynamics of value, allowing for a real-time market that can instantly trade between gold, currency, mobile minutes, and more,” GBI’s co-founder and CEO Steven Feldman said. “Our integration into Ripple allows us to continue our push into digital currencies by enabling investors to now buy digital physical gold…” Ripple

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building the decentralized web 3.0

how ethereum could shard the web Given the state of our 25-year old web and all the problems inherited from legacy 1970′s systems design, we should pause and take inventory of those components which are fundamentally broken and would offer a substantial return on development investment. Intersecting this concern with security, privacy, and censorship resistance, […]

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Codius is Open Source

Today, we released the first prototype and source code for Codius, the smart contracts implementation centered around the concept of smart oracles (check out the white paper if you missed it). Codius is open source and everything is available on Github. Right now the prototype and contracts are written in Javascript but very soon you’ll […]