đ„PL? Privacy Ledger...đ„
(Dinarian Note: @BlackRockWhale2 has made quite a few predictions that are uncanny, and have come true. He/She claims to be a wall street trading floor trader, and may very well be true from some of the postings. Recently predicting multiple glitches on XRP before they occured, and multiple huge transactions just days before they happen. Here are a few recent tweets.. The latest being the 1st image. Is He/She refering to the Private XRPL, that was built for the Banking sector specifically? I believe so... He/She also hinted that the XRP so called glitches are THEM testing the Private Ledger in the background.)
The Private Ledger
In March 2021, Ripple announced it built a private version of the open-source, public XRP Ledger to provide Central Banks with a secure, controlled, and flexible solution for the issuance and management of CBDCs. Currently, 80% of central banks are investigating some form of digital currency, and new CBDCs are bound to emerge. The term central bank digital currency (CBDC) refers to the digital form of a fiat currency. A CBDC is an electronic record or digitized token of a countryâs official currency.
CBDC Challenges
Distributed ledger** technology will be used as a basis for most CBDCs, just as most cryptocurrencies do today. Although these Central Banks have the option to tap into existing blockchains to get CBDCs up and running quickly, they are often not capable of handling the volumes that CBDCs need for a successful launch.
**A distributed digital ledger must be accompanied by a cryptocurrency in order to carry out transactions.
Another disadvantage when tapping into an existing (public) blockchain is that they are likely to be public ledgers, hence, visible to all. Because Central Banks require more privacy with regards to their transactions, they often require more control over their currency than a public ledger can offer. A private ledgerâsuch as Rippleâs CBDC solutionâis therefore more appealing to Central Banks.
The CBDC Private Ledger
The CBDC Private Ledger is based on the same blockchain technology that powers the XRP Ledger, making it ideally suited for payments.
In an official announcement, Ripple mentioned that: âMoving money on the CBDC Private Ledger will be cost-effective, reliable and close to instantaneous. Transactions can also happen at volumes required by Central Banks. The CBDC Private Ledger will handle tens of thousands of transactions per second (TPS) initially with the potential to scale to hundreds of thousands TPSs over time. Transactions on the CBDC Private Ledger are verified by the same consensus protocol used by the XRP Ledger, which is far less energy intensive, and therefore less expensive than public blockchains that leverage proof-of-work.â
Central Banks have the ability to securely and flexibly create their digital currency, taking advantage of the highest security standards while maintaining their privacy and policy requirements. They are therefore not constrained by having to adapt to technological conditions but on the contrary; technology adapts to them and allows them to maintain their own conditions.
What Has been Said?
In a blog post, Ripple mentioned that: âWe believe this will be a game-changer for central banks,â while Monica Long â General Manager of RippleX at Ripple â confirmed that XRP will be used as a bridge or as a bridge currency to interact between a CBDC and other currencies: âTokenization has always been a key feature of XRPL with over 5,400 tokens issued since its inception. CBDCs will live on new private ledgers that run alongside XRPL, using XRP as a bridge to interoperate with other currencies. No more walled gardens!â
Matt Hamilton â Principal Developer Advocate at Ripple, has confirmed that the CBDC Private Ledger is based on public XRPL: âThe idea would be that each institution manages its own private ledger. Just like they already do internally, but in this case based on XRPL software. Then this is connected to the XRP public ledger and uses it to bridge the gap between the different institutionsâ.
âThe public ledger is designed for payments. And it was built almost a decade ago, long before banks knew how they would use blockchains. This gives the best of both worlds, a âprivateâ blockchain for intra-bank, but linked to a public blockchain for interbankâ.
David Schwartz â Chief Technology Officer at Ripple â explained why central banks want this âprivateâ aspect: âOne of the main reasons central banks do not open their payment systems to everyone is that their systems are too dependent on trust to allow entities they do not trust to âto accessâ.
He also said that âXRP can perform private ledger transactions just like non-XRP transactions on XRPL. This allows issuers who are not ready to transact on a public blockchain to continue interacting with XRPâ.
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