(XRP) has received attention from two sides. One considers that XRP is headed
for by major financial institutions while the other camp sneers at insisting
that it cannot be classified as a utility because of the level of
centralization as a fund-raising tool, if not an air-drop.
There’s a third angle to see XRP when comparing it with other coins; the kind of publicity it has whether as a platform, an alternative digital asset, or the quality of the team.
As
XRP_Anderson :
“Considering the recent issues having to do with some of the largest cryptos in the market, I would say, I believe XRP is much far ahead of than what we realize. Yes, I said it! Just being honest! How many issues are you seeing XRP having?”
Anderson
is right
On a deeper level, XRP_Anderson is right. A look at the top cryptos, including () and (ETH), reveals just how superior as a network is.
For
example,
It is estimated that approximately transactions on the are unconfirmed. Fortunately, this is an improvement considering that in 2017, when prices rallied to $20,000, roughly 200,000 transactions were left unconfirmed with settlement stretching for hours.
Ethereum Is No Better
The
, although commanding development ahead of Serenity, is not
perfect, as developers call it quits. At the same time, projects are migrating
to competitors citing scalability.
To
help make things better, ,
one of the co-founders of , said on May 11 that they are fast tracking
development that will see the network scalability surge 1,000 times in next 18
to 24 months. However, this is yet to be seen considering they have known for
postponing similar upgrades in the past.
bitcoin Cash Temporarily Suffers an Unintended Hard Fork
Two days ago, Cash carried out a system-wide upgrade meant to introduce Schnorr signatures. Minutes later, there was a freeze. Empty transactions started flowing to the network’s mempool. It was after the developers released a patch that everything was put under control.
Stellar’s Blackout
Meanwhile, ’s Competitor, had a blackout on May-15 where the network couldn’t strike consensus for two hours meaning no transactions were transacted.
“The network went down for about 2 hours. Only those who run validators noticed it. No new transactions were added for approximately 2 hours. What basically happened was that a critical mass of nodes went down causing a cascading failure and so the entire network went down but because it isn’t frequently used, few noticed,” noted , founder of PostOakLabs. This was seen as the effects of being mostly centralized.
Tron’s CTO Leaves Claiming Significant Centralization
’s
chief technology officer, ,
left the platform due to what he claimed was excessive centralization. Together
with others also formerly associated with , Chen is building a
platform that will compete with .
The
CTO’s departure has elicited a series of attacks from Justin Sun, ’s
founder. Sun claims that Chen had to leave because who was involved in bribery
and failure to keep company secrets. This is something that the former CTO has
denied.
The
list of crypto projects with issues includes Tether (not 100% USD backed),
Classic (double spend attack), (decrease in hash rate, prone to
flooding attack), etc.
Meanwhile,
Inc is striking deals. As XRP prices break free from bears, the network
is fast, settling in less than four seconds and institutions are investing as
XRP report of Q1 2019 shows.
Published at Fri, 17 May 2019 14:29:31 +0000
