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Ripple-the-payment-method is about routing through directed networks. Merkle trees are not really related to the payment mechanism at all.
by maaku 13y ago
Ripple-the-payment-method is about routing through directed networks. Merkle trees are not really related to the payment mechanism at all.
- ghshephard 13y agoFrom the article: "Our consensus process uses peering ... instead of mining. The ledger is a data structure that describes the current state of the network as a merkle tree"
- delinka 13y agoAnd still, merkle trees are not really related to the payment mechanism.