Ah, I missed this, thanks. On 13 February 2013 15:49, Jorge Timón wrote: > Well, if it's even possible to trade across "chains" with Ripple (and > I don't know of any reason shouldn't be), you will have to wait to the > release of the full node (validator) code, for now only a javascript > web client is open sourced. But it seems they at least have plans for > contracts judging from the wiki: > > https://ripple.com/wiki/Contracts > > > On 2/13/13, Petr Praus wrote: > > Jorge, thanks for bitcoinx tip, I didn't know about it and it's certainly > > related. I'll have a closer look > > Regarding Ripple, I tried it but as far as I can tell, it doesn't have > any > > contract enforcement (by technical means) built in. > > > > > > On 11 February 2013 05:03, Jorge Timón wrote: > > > >> Hi, you may be interested in a couple of related projects. > >> > >> Colored coins uses satoshis to represent smart property, shares, IOUs > >> of another currency...Colored coins can be atomically traded for > >> bitcoin. If you implement the trade across chains contract they would > >> also be tradeable for another chain currencies like namecoin or > >> freicoin. > >> > >> http://www.bitcoinx.org/ > >> > >> Ripple is a concept by which people that trust each other on a network > >> are able to pay with IOUs transitively. It has a new p2p > >> implementation that is still on development. The new implementation > >> is very similar to bitcoin in certain senses but it has no mining. > >> Bitcoin IOUs can be traded there. > >> > >> https://ripple.com/ > >> > >> Good luck with the implementation, this is a good feature to have, > >> even if it's not on the main client. > >> > >> > >> On 2/8/13, Petr Praus wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > I intend to implement trading across chains in a P2P manner (as > >> > described > >> > by Mike Hearn in > >> > https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts#Example_5:_Trading_across_chains > ). > >> > Note, this is indended more as an alternative chain development, I > >> > don't > >> > have any plans for merging it back into main client (not because I > >> > don't > >> > want to, but because I think it wouldn't be accepted). Before I dive > >> > into > >> > it, I thought it might be a good idea to ask here if the community has > >> any > >> > useful ideas or comments on this topic? > >> > > >> > Thanks to Gary Rowe I know about Open > >> > Transactions. > >> > They can do "multicurrency trading" too, but it's objectives are quite > >> > ambitious and I'm looking at making relatively small changes in the > >> > mainline Bitcoin client rather than diving into something entirely > new. > >> > > >> > A little background on why am I doing this, can be found > >> > here< > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/bitcoinj/lmVSF8yaJHk/discussion>. > >> > In short it's part of research towards my Master's thesis (more > >> precisely, > >> > an excuse to hack on Bitcoin and sell it as research :)) which should > >> > be > >> > about multicurrency (alternative chains) in Bitcoin. > >> > > >> > Thanks, > >> > Petr > >> > > >> > PS: I hope I'm not too off topic here, but > >> > this thread > >> > indicates it should be fine to post alternative development questions > >> > on > >> > this. > >> > > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Jorge Timón > >> > >> http://freico.in/ > >> http://archive.ripple-project.org/ > >> > > > > > -- > Jorge Timón > > http://freico.in/ > http://archive.ripple-project.org/ >