New Digital Currency Aims to Unite Every Money System on Earth

[BIT-Sharon]

“We are living in a world of closed, un-interoperable networks,” says Patrick Collision, one of Stripe’s co-founders, referring to the many credit card networks that now move money across the net. “Whether it’s bitcoin or Stellar or some other technology, it’s really important—and, I hope inevitable—that something comes along and unifies them.”


http://www.wired.com/2014/08/new-digital-currency-aims-to-unite-every-money-system-on-earth/

[tokeweed]

it's not about the 'digital currency'. it's about the platform. stellar/ripple have really good tech, and is really useful for moving value on the internet.  here's a primer:  https://ripple.com/ripple_primer.pdf

both ripple and stellar (a ripple fork) is NOT about its built in currency. having only a small amount of that, like 100 XRP/STR is enough for an average user to last him a life time of transactions in using those platforms.

[BIT-Sharon]

I got the meaning like that they are invented to be a useful standard for financial transaction which make independent system interconnected with each other. And as the standard grow complete,  kinds of platform can works together.

[darthcoin]

I'm not sure I understand the currency distribution angle of Stellar.

[tokeweed]

I'm not sure I understand the currency distribution angle of Stellar.

easy wallet activation. somewhat of an issue in ripple. 

[digitalindustry]

this sounds like a Stellar idea*



*this was an innovative and creative play on words.

[CryptoDomains]

It certainly has the potential to be huge, if it doesn't rush it and can offer a true multicurrency wallet, wow, great stuff, send X currency, receive and convert to X currency and so on.

It certainly has the major backers in the field.

[Nullu]

It's the next crypto wave. Creating cryptos full of cryptos.

[knifeedge]

What's more important is the lack of clarity on how it solves the Byzantine Generals Problem.