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Re:This Is the Week Wall Street Went Nuts Over Cryptocurrencies by shepardrtc on Friday October 13, 2017 @03:27PM (#15468611)
That's not true at all. Ripple (XRP) is a cryptocurrency and it is distributed.
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Re:This Is the Week Wall Street Went Nuts Over Cryptocurrencies by rothbardrand on Friday October 13, 2017 @07:11PM (#15469812)
Let me put it this way-- when one of the founders left, the company froze his Ripple. You can't do that with a true cryptocurrency.
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Re:This Is the Week Wall Street Went Nuts Over Cryptocurrencies by shepardrtc on Friday October 13, 2017 @08:41PM (#15470057)
What about when that Ethereum got stolen and the devs hard-forked it to get it back?
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