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 <p...@praus.net> 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 <jtimo...@gmail.com> 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 <p...@praus.net> 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<https://github.com/FellowTraveler/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<https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=15527.0> 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
