Everything you need to know about Ripple
A complete guide to everything you need to know about Ripple. Here, we explore the history of Ripple, top wallets, how to buy and sell XRP, and much more. Ripple was mainly launched in an attempt to substitute the SWIFT based transfer system, with a decentralized, blockchain based, global system for monetary transfers.
Kraken upgrades with much needed new features
As Kraken became evidently unable to handle the large number of users trading on its platform, they successfully upgraded the platform to keep up with the increased number of traders using the exchange. This followed a downtime of around 48 hours that negatively affected thousands of traders on Kraken’s platform.
Ripple vs R3 – the rift deepens
Ripple has cancelled its partnership with R3, following the recent unprecedented surge of Ripple’s price. The partnership was expected to give Ripple access to R3’s Consortium of banks. The cancellation was justified by Ripple’s executive, Brad Garlinghouse, who stated that R3 knowingly deceived Ripple regarding the contract, as R3 knew that a number of banks that were important to Ripple were about to leave the R3 Consortium
DAO + ICO = DAICO – a new way to raise funds
ICOs have taken the financial industry by surprise as billions of dollars have been gathered through them. However, ICOs have their limitations. To solve these problems, Buterin has designed a new approach, which is a combination of Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) and the Initial Coin Offering (ICO).
