Show HN: Hyperledger – Open Payments Protocol

Of course, people who want to see the pool fail could run malicious nodes, but given appropriate membership restrictions and that fact that all an attack can do is pause the pool temporarily the incentive there should be pretty low.

The main one being that there is no native currency like XRP, so there is no risk of a similar situation to the current fiasco arising.

hyperledger is designed to be far more light weight and flexible than Ripple, meaning that instead of just being a conduit to trade other assets, hyperledger allows organisations to also issue their own assets, which they have complete control over.

We also have a different notion of pools. Anyone can create their own consensus pool with its own membership requirement rules or features, such as private transaction.

We achieve consensus by a slight different method. More info on this to come, please check the FAQ: http://www.hyperledger.com/faqs.html#ripple

Currently we are a small team of two, myself on the business/marketing side (we will be building commercial products on top of the open project, just as any user could) and feichtinger who is the main technical side. A bit more info on the contact page. Happy to answer any specifics here.

i am wondering, when everything is free and open-source here, how is the business model?

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