Nochmals zu Ripple: Mögliche Kombination als auch mögliche Konkurrenz für BTC...
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/ ... make_wavesBitcoin transactions are also slow. Each transaction takes on an average 10 minutes to be verified before it is confirmed. By contrast, sending and receiving money on Ripple will take only a few seconds, according to Larsen.Still, it remains to be seen if Ripple can emerge as a widely-used payment system. Many of its early users are also Bitcoin users, and it currently operates just 12 servers worldwide, Larsen said. Bitcoin, meanwhile, has well over a million users."I see Ripple being used more in localized, regional community environments rather than as a global international application like gold or bitcoins," said Jon Matonis, a board member of the Bitcoin Foundation, which funds Bitcoin's infrastructure.Ripple's trusted pathways are unlikely to be formed between people who are not already connected socially, he added. "Someone in Japan is not going to care about someone's reputation in California," he said.But Ripple has a software model that is attracting attention among developers, OpenCoin's Larsen said. The software supporting the service is open source, allowing developers to build additional transactional features on top of it.