[Cryptography] [Crypto-practicum] Please critique this mining-free blockchain design

Peter Todd pete at petertodd.org
Fri Jul 28 21:29:04 EDT 2017


On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 12:34:48AM +0200, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote:
> You'll note Ripple is effectively a consortium of trusted parties doing a
> blockchainish move. It's quite hidden how it works nowadays, but it's
> probably just mutual ledger signing, perhaps in a contrived package to sell
> it better. When last I checked, they obtained much of the
> anti-censorship/privacy/reliability by piggybacking whatever transactions
> on a bitcoin ledger.

I'm unaware of any version of Ripple interacting with the Bitcoin ledger in any
way. Mind pointing me to this?

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