Quote from: TPTB_need_war on March 20, 2016, 02:41:33 AM

Quote from: pimpjuice on March 20, 2016, 02:39:23 AM

Microsoft is already running a Ripple validator.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-blockchain-as-a-service-update/#comment-2474418189

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Quote from: TPTB_need_war on March 20, 2016, 01:37:48 AM

Ripple promulgates a lot of hyped nonsense to n00bs in the government, W3C, and banking sector who don't understand the details.

I think the greatest irony is how Larry Summers et al don't realize that they are crafting their own demise by investing in shit such as profitable mining, Lightning (channelled) Networks, smart contracts, Ripple nonsense, etc..

Centralized and federated shit does not scale:

Quote from: TPTB_need_war on March 19, 2016, 09:29:46 PM

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Btw, proof-of-stake will never scale out user adoption, because it is a vested interest paradigm, and thus will be destroyed by its stake holders. No stake holder (in any context or business model) allows a competitor to profit. Only permissionless, decentralized systems scale.

Microsoft will whore itself any way it can to try obfuscate that is a dying dinosaur.

XRP has no involvement in permissioned, centralized systems. XRP is used outside of the permissioned network as a bridge currency to connect permissioned networks to others on a public ledger. As far as I know Ripple does not use PoS. Ripple is introducing an XRP incentive program for market makers who use XRP to offer tighter FX spreads.