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Quote from: Branko on March 10, 2019, 04:03:55 AM

Quote from: encycrypto on March 09, 2019, 05:17:43 PM

That's a bad statement. Getting 51% hash of bitcoin will cost billions, does he really think that it's possible?

A perfectly decentralized platform will always be 51% attackable.

Actually, not even millions

https://www.crypto51.app/

OMG that's quite dangerous. Not even half a million for an hour of attack.

Are you sure that the costs provided there are accurate?!?

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Ripple's had a little calm down now. There was more speculation in the past. The XRP team is running a good advertising campaign. They can affect the price very positively.

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The global economy wants - 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙨 - real-time payments! I cover this & the latest news impacting XRP in today's blog:

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𝐑𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬: Ripple donates one million dollars to Tipping Point, a local San Francisco non-profit; And the first ILP Summit is announced.

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I hope you enjoy the read!

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Quote from: encycrypto on March 09, 2019, 05:17:43 PM

That's a bad statement. Getting 51% hash of bitcoin will cost billions, does he really think that it's possible?

A perfectly decentralized platform will always be 51% attackable.

Actually, not even millions

https://www.crypto51.app/

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Quote from: encycrypto on March 09, 2019, 05:17:43 PM

That's a bad statement. Getting 51% hash of bitcoin will cost billions, does he really think that it's possible?

A perfectly decentralized platform will always be 51% attackable.

at certain point,yes,it will be doable.

encycrypto

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That's a bad statement. Getting 51% hash of bitcoin will cost billions, does he really think that it's possible?

A perfectly decentralized platform will always be 51% attackable.

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Ripple CTO David Schwartz issued a fiery response - Ripple CTO Says Bitcoin Is at a ‘Dead End’, Refutes Claims That XRP Is Vulnerable to Attack

"No blockchain that I know of has better protection against a hostile majority attack than the XRP Ledger does. Bitcoin will happily allow double spends if the majority of mining power is in hostile hands…

PoW has been a dead end for both decentralization and security, It’s gotten more centralized, and we’ve seen 51% double spend attacks. By contrast, distributed agreement has gotten more decentralized, and it’s clear how to mitigate these attacks in software."

https://dailyhodl.com/2019/03/08/ripple-cto-says-bitcoin-is-at-a-dead-end-refutes-claims-that-xrp-is-vulnerable-to-attack/

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What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger

Seems like this year will be the year of FUD and price suppression so that companies and partners can jump in the ecosystem in low prices.
A lot of big companies are getting into the space and either buy cheap coins or find development teams in desperate need for partnerships and get beneficial terms for themselves.

It doesn't matter to me really, I'll followed the tide up and down, I'll follow it again up and most likely down again. I'm only interested in shops starting to accept my coins for products, only then I might sell some XRP if the price is good.

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Another interesting XRP applying

- Ripple/XRP to venture into biometrics space; holding company expresses interest in XRP Ledger

"If the partnership with Aluf Holdings goes through, Ripple will move into yet another important sector, the biometric space..."

https://ambcrypto.com/ripple-xrp-to-venture-into-biometrics-space-holding-company-expresses-interest-in-xrp-ledger/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

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Quote from: encycrypto on March 08, 2019, 05:23:15 AM

Quote from: yurimir on March 06, 2019, 10:46:50 AM

New Fiat-XRP Gateway from the third largest crypto exchange Huobi OTC, making XRP available to buy with 25 different fiat currencies.

Already live: https://otc.hbg.com/en-us

https://huobiglobal.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000218741-XRP-Will-Launch-on-Huobi-OTC-at-10-00-March-6-GMT-8-

I do regularly use Huobi and this will definitely help a lot of people to get XRP through fiat in a few clicks, including me.

I think that today there are no problems to invest in cryptocurrency. Good resource for. Indeed a lot. It seems to me that today the real problem is the choice of really promising projects.

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Quote from: yurimir on March 06, 2019, 10:46:50 AM

New Fiat-XRP Gateway from the third largest crypto exchange Huobi OTC, making XRP available to buy with 25 different fiat currencies.

Already live: https://otc.hbg.com/en-us

https://huobiglobal.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000218741-XRP-Will-Launch-on-Huobi-OTC-at-10-00-March-6-GMT-8-

I do regularly use Huobi and this will definitely help a lot of people to get XRP through fiat in a few clicks, including me.

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New Fiat-XRP Gateway from the third largest crypto exchange Huobi OTC, making XRP available to buy with 25 different fiat currencies.

Already live: https://otc.hbg.com/en-us

https://huobiglobal.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000218741-XRP-Will-Launch-on-Huobi-OTC-at-10-00-March-6-GMT-8-

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𝐑𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬: The National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) shares its perspective on real-time payments and its use of Ripple technology; and Ross D'Arcy, Ripple's Sales Director for Europe, is scheduled to participate at the Dublin Tech Summit.

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𝐗𝐑𝐏 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬: Wietse Wind plans an XRP Meetup in the Netherlands, rescheduled for April 20th; An XRP Swag Shop announces new 'jersey-themed' designs; BlockFi announces that they will support XRP in 'April or May' for crypto-backed loans; and BlockQuake, a new crypto exchange, announces that XRP will be a base currency with seven fiat pairings.

I hope you enjoy the read!

Thanks & Sincerely,
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Quote from: Perunex on March 05, 2019, 04:24:20 AM

Quote from: Ccexicocartel on February 26, 2019, 10:26:38 PM

I still don't understand and agree how Ripple is considered crypto. Please try to tell me otherwise

I don't understand why wouldn't it be?

Is it built on the blockchain? Yes. Is it listed on any exchange? Yes. Can XRP be owned by anyone? Yes.

Why wouldn't it be a crypto currency? It's definitely not a fiat.

Some people tend to believe that cryptocurrencies = (1) Mined coins, (2) everyone has a fair chance to obtain it (though in the end the rich people build farms and obtain it faster), (3) anonymity.
Personally I believe that anything built on a blockchain and it's used for transactions is a cryptocurrency.

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Quote from: Ccexicocartel on February 26, 2019, 10:26:38 PM

I still don't understand and agree how Ripple is considered crypto. Please try to tell me otherwise

I don't understand why wouldn't it be?

Is it built on the blockchain? Yes. Is it listed on any exchange? Yes. Can XRP be owned by anyone? Yes.

Why wouldn't it be a crypto currency? It's definitely not a fiat.

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There was times when people begged for tools like "Google search" to obtain information. Nowadays ordinary human can not both use search engine and gather information on official website. Also, analytical abilities are gone. Forever.

Nowadays people tend to believe first shit post that was given to them. They shout about anarchy, freedom from banks, but at the same time eat every shit given to them....

Most of this people are gone, when light goes off.

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Quote from: encycrypto on March 04, 2019, 05:29:42 PM

Okay thanks, that helped. However I've a question, it looks like the XRP coin isn't centralised, but what about the nodes working for XRP transactions? Are they centralised?

When I checked today, there were 1094 nodes!
Those nodes are all the active nodes: https://xrpcharts.ripple.com/#/topology BUT be advised, the site is heavy, it'll probably freeze on a phone

Here are some very useful information which are provided in 1 or 2 sentences: https://developers.ripple.com/technical-faq.html#validators-and-unique-node-lists

There are some guides around about how to setup a "validator node", but since there are no rewards in doing so I can only see financial institutions who are using XRP and exchanges setting up nodes.
Ofcourse some big holders who want to add an extra safety might run a node. In any case, 1094 nodes are a lot! dPoS coins like ARK run with 51 without a problem.

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Okay thanks, that helped. However I've a question, it looks like the XRP coin isn't centralised, but what about the nodes working for XRP transactions? Are they centralised?

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The coin itself is called XRP ... pronounced "ex-ar-pi". Ripple Labs is the name of the company that created the coin.
Some uneducated people call XRP centralised because when XRP was first created, it was all owned by the company Ripple Labs. However those people are stack on the past and don't realise that today XRP might be more decentralised than Bitcoin... I don't say it is, just that we don't know, we CAN'T know who owns which address or how many addresses they own.

At least in XRP's case we know how many coins are in the developer's control (https://ripple.com/xrp/market-performance),
As of February 24th, 2019,
- TOTAL XRP HELD BY RIPPLE 6,459,541,915
- TOTAL XRP DISTRIBUTED 41,432,141,931
- TOTAL XRP PLACED IN ESCROW 52,100,000,013
Total XRP: 99,991,683,859

Since Ripple isn't keeping a history of the above data, I save them in my personal notes. 1 year ago the data looked like that,
As of February 25th, 2018,
- TOTAL XRP HELD BY RIPPLE 7,000,563,553
- TOTAL XRP DISTRIBUTED 39,091,956,706
- TOTAL XRP PLACED IN ESCROW 53,900,000,024
Total XRP: 99,992,520,283

So within 1 year, Ripple spent/distributed/sold a total of 541 million XRP.
A total of 2340 million XRP have entered the market from which 1800 million have come from the escrow.
The inflation can be calculated to 4.34% (total coins held by Ripple+Market). For comparison, Bitcoin has an inflation of 3.74%.

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Quote from: Ccexicocartel on February 26, 2019, 10:26:38 PM

I still don't understand and agree how Ripple is considered crypto. Please try to tell me otherwise

I still dont understand how easy people can be manipulated by some dorks on butthurttalk in 2013 paying others 5 BTC to say "Ryppel is a scam"

The people today only Repeat the sentence without getting paid. It got so present in their heads without knowing why they even say this!

Xrp is best crypto

I would gladly get this 5 BTC to say "Ryppel is a scam" and then use them to buy XRP! Cheesy

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Quote from: encycrypto on March 03, 2019, 06:12:12 PM

Quote from: MemberBerries on March 03, 2019, 08:36:07 AM

Ripple is centralised but XRP is not Wink

What's the best article to learn the difference/relation between these two? I'm interested in knowing it.

And that one here

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Ripple-and-XRP-How-does-the-success-of-Ripple-affect-the-price-of-XRP

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