In 2011 Jed reportedly sold 88% of MTGox to Karpeles under unusual terms that completely released McCaleb from any liability after the sale. One of Ripple’s founders, Jed McCaleb, was also the creator of MTGox, one of the world’s first, and initially largest, Bitcoin exchanges. Often hailed as one of the most innovative startups in fintech, blockchain pioneer Ripple has a long and controversial history in the sector. Ben is an Interledger “plugin” expert and has implemented support for decentralized ledgers, centralized ledgers, and even “virtual ledgers”. Michiel previously worked on, Firefox OS, IndieWeb, and multi-objective reinforcement learning. He studied political economy and education at Brown University before coming to Ripple. Evan previously worked as a developer on Ripple’s smart contract platform, Codius. The Interledger whitepaper, code and further documentation can be found at. He will be joined by his colleagues Ben Sharafian and Michiel de Jong.Įvan, Ben and Michiel will give a demo of multi-currency micropayments using the “ILP Kit” and the first public demo of cross-blockchain payments using Interledger. During Bitcoin Wednesday on 1 March, 2017, Evan will explain how Interledger uses an open architecture to enable payments and micropayments across different types of blockchains and other ledgers. Interledger offers a common language for financial networks to interconnect with a philosophy that recalls many of today’s Internet standards.Įvan Schwartz is a co-inventor of the Interledger Protocol (ILP) and the Managing Director of Ripple’s European Research and Development division based in Luxembourg. Observing that the world will never agree on one blockchain, they came up with the Interledger Protocol, which is simply a communications standard, not another network or another blockchain. Ripple was one of the first blockchains to offer its users the ability to transact in different currencies, so it should be no surprise that they have introduced a solution to the problem of interoperability between blockchains themselves. Interledger: Because The World Will Never Agree on One Blockchain
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