Category: Cryptocurrency

Ripple and the Benevolent Machine Dictatorship

Several months ago, Ripple posted an interview with Scott Chamberlain, an entrepreneurial fellow at the Australian National University College of Law. With funding through Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI), ANU launched two new courses exploring legal issues with the application of blockchain technology like smart contracts and the integration of artificial intelligence into a

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Forte Blockchain and PayID Preview

Forte provided a preview of some of their upcoming blockchain gaming features during a recent PayID developer conference. The preview illustrated some of the social monetization techniques developers could leverage within the Forte blockchain. These social aspects of the Forte monetization platform are already present in the gaming ecosystem, but they occur informally or without

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PayID Privacy and Security

PayID seems poised to solve a problem plaguing the cryptocurrency community since the very first Bitcoin was mined by Satoshi Nakamoto – the requirement to input the long and cumbersome sequence of numbers found with most cryptocurrency account addresses. These addresses resemble the strange sequence of numbers found in ipv6 addresses in length and complexity,

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The Artificial Controversies Surrounding Ripple’s Charitable Works

The most annoying trend that I have noticed in both cryptocurrency and traditional news media is the tendency to report on the comments of Twitter users after a statement or event in the news. Their comments are not something the news media are interested in because they’re informative or exciting. The reason that these tweets

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Ripple’s Xpring Investment Poised to Solve Major Cryptocurrency Adoption Hurdle

One of the missing cogs to mainstream cryptocurrency adoption has always been ease of use. The consequences of mismanaging private keys, seed words, and exchange passwords are catastrophic. Hardware wallets like the Ledger Nano S or the Trezor mitigate remote theft of cryptocurrency by hackers and malware authors, but for the general public, they are

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Ripple, Gaming, and the Creation of Digital Economies – An Analysis of Recent Forte Blockchain Revelations

Picture this: Sometime in the not too distant future, a game-developer releases the simulation of a digital world. It’s predicated on trustless, blockchain-inspired technology. The world has a set of rules, and they play out independently of any overseer interference. The world has a digital economy powered by blockchain technology and uses a native digital

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XRP and Mass Media Censorship

The XRP community is no stranger to big tech censorship. From the shadow banning of Twitter accounts back in 2018 to the outright suspension of prominent XRP community members like @XRPTrump in early 2019, social media platforms have been enforcing their peculiar and contradictory rules towards XRP supporters for a long time. More recently, Twitter

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XRP and the Digital Cosmetics Marketplace, Part 2

Forte, the Ripple powered digital games marketplace, recently signed partnership agreements with five new gaming studios. Netmarble, Magmic, nWay, DECA, and HI-REZ studios will each integrate Forte’s platform into one of their games. Some of these partnerships are very promising; others are substanceless hype. The blockchain gaming space has been largely hype-driven, with several studios

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