Questions about Ripple are off-topic. Gateways are entities in the Ripple network that provide an entry point to the network by accepting deposits and issuing IOUs for them.
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What happens when a gateway on the Ripple network defaults or simply vanishes?
What happens when a gateway on the Ripple network defaults or simply vanishes? Do people that got their money from it lose that money, do other gateways honour the IOUs issued by that gateway still, or does something else happen?
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Why does bitstamp have two addresses for Ripple?
The bitstamp address "to trust" is rvYAfWj5gh67oV6fW32ZzP3Aw4Eubs59B, however when you withdraw money, it you get it from rrpNnNLKrartuEqfJGpqyDwPj1AFPg9vn1 instead. Why?
With weexchange I got the money from the same address I trusted.
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How exactly is Ripple decentralized when OpenCoin has so much XRP?
Let us assume in a best case scenario, the Ripple system gets opensourced this year and the 50 billion XRP are distributed fairly to many people in the world.
One of the reasons of having XRP currency is to prevent spam and provide safety to the…
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How to create a ripple gateway?
I want to know what to do if I want to create a ripple gateway, so that people can use it and exchange on it. Where do I start?
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With Ripple, how do Gateway IOUs work?
A Gateway must do two things
accept some form of deposit from a user and give the user Gateway
IOUs. (Other -> ripple)
accept Gateway IOUs from a user and send that
user payment. (ripple -> Other)
How does Gateway IOUs work? I have three…
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How Ripple actually transfer money from one bank to another?
Imagine there is bank A from USA and bank B from England, and they are both on Ripple Network.
Bank A wants to transfer $100 to bank B.
How does bank A put money in the Ripple network? Does it need to buy XRP from some gateway?
Suppose bank A…
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Is there any chance of the Ripple gateway market NOT consolidating into a small transnational oligopoly?
Bigger and better reputations might beget more business and so on. What can possibly prevent emergence of a small oligopoly of transnational Ripple gateways ?
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How does a gateway IOU differ from any other IOU on the Ripple network?
How does a gateway IOU differ from any other IOU on the Ripple network? Say, if I got a $1000 from a gateway, does that make it a better currency than say, creating a second account and sending myself $1000 through that? Does the Ripple network…
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Ripple testnet explorer
This is Ripple main Explorer. But where can i find the transactions ledger from wallets on Ripple testnet.
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How to accept payments via Ripple on a website
A web search led to Ripple.com.
Is it possible to add the payments via Ripple payment to an e-commerce website?
Where can i find source code to implement such Ripple payments?
For example, there are few websites which offer payment via Ripple such…
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How is a Ripple gateway different than a conventional bank?
Everything I've read so far suggests that a Ripple "gateway" is just like a bank. How is it different than a conventional bank?
Is it possible to have a bank of banks (central bank) in Ripple?
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Is it still possible to issue your own assets on Ripple?
I was talking to some folks interested in facilitating trade of non-monetary assets (power to be specific). I was thinking that Ripple as a platform may be more suited for such trades than Bitcoin. However, when I was researching Ripple today, it…
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Accepting Payments To Bitcoins
I am setting up an online shop to sell digital goods. I would ideally like to accept only Bitcoin payments, however most users do not use Bitcoins or can't work it out. Therefore, I have to accept credit cards, Paypal, etc. to actually make a…
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Is there a comprehensive list of Gateways' IOUs and fees associated with using them?
I am looking for information about the various IOUs issued by Ripple Gateways and what fees are associated with using them - namely fees to get the IOUs and transit fees.
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How can we be sure that Open Coin would not create more than 100 billion XRP?
ripple server code is still private and beta.
There is no legality preventing Open Coin to print more XRP now as it is a private company and the network is not at a stage where it is wide scale distributed like bitcoin for consensus process to have…
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