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New Digital Currency Aims to Unite Every Money System

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6 pointschiachun3 comments

  Situation: There are 14 competing standards.

  14?! Ridiculous!  We need to develop one
  universal standard that covers everyone's
  use cases.

                        Yeah!

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        There are 15 competing standards.

The article fails to mention Jed McCaleb sold millions of dollars worth of XRP that he and his company premined and gave to themselves.

He's also the PHP guru behind this:

http://i.imgur.com/xMeW43a.jpg

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