Man Who Introduced Millions to Bitcoin Says Blockchain Is a Bust

Re:Man Who Introduced Millions to Bitcoin Says Blockchain Is... by smaps on Thursday August 18, 2016 @12:17PM (#12313764)

> “Blockchains are a pain to work with,” wrote Thomas, the chief technology officer of Ripple Labs.

One thing to note is that he works for Ripple Labs, which created another protocol that is similar to Bitcoin/anything blockchain based... so it's pretty much a competitor calling their competition a bust.

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Re:Man Who Introduced Millions to Bitcoin Says Blockchain Is... by throwaway1974 on Thursday August 18, 2016 @12:32PM (#12313951)

Its worse than that he scammed many people with Ripple in past, then he proceeded to rebrand as Stellar (and somehow suckered in the guys from Stripe who are being very qiuet about it now) and is repeating the same steps as before.

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Re:Man Who Introduced Millions to Bitcoin Says Blockchain Is... by vhpoet on Thursday August 18, 2016 @01:32PM (#12314593)

talking about a wrong dude :)

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