Ripple tries to get listed, Monero forks, criticism of blockchains, and more news.

Ripple

Flockpath (coming soon) keeps you updated on top news in select topics. The most talked-about cryptocurrency posts in tweets tracked by Flockpath this week:

1. Ripple Has Tried to Buy Its Way Onto Major Exchanges for Cryptocurrency

Bloomberg reports that Ripple to exchanges to list XRP: “Last year, the San Francisco-based company suggested paying financial incentives to the venues, Gemini and Coinbase”.

2. JPMorgan’s Blockchain Chief Is Setting Out on Her Own

“Amber Baldet, a JPMorgan Chase executive who leads the bank’s blockchain team, is leaving the company to start a business of her own.”

3. Monero Just Hard Forked — and It Resulted in Four New Projects

“Privacy-centric cryptocurrency Monero hard forked to version 12 of its protocol yesterday. But not everyone is on board… Now there is Monero Classic (XMC), Monero 0 (XMZ), Monero Original (XMO) and a second project by the name Monero Classic (XMC)”.

4. Proof-of-Stake, Private Keys Attacks and Unforgeable Costliness the Unsung Hero

Hugo Nguyen argues, “private keys attacks present a serious problem for PoS protocols.”

5. ‘Being cash-free puts us at risk of attack’: Swedes turn against cashlessness

“It is hard to argue that you cannot trust the government when the government isn’t really all that bad. This is the problem facing the small but growing number of Swedes anxious about their country’s rush to embrace a cash-free society.”

6. Is The War Against ASICs Worth Fighting?

Derek Hsue explores the easoning behind ASIC-resistant networks like Ethereum and Monero compared to the benefits of ASICs and concludes, “embracing ASICs is probably the best route.”

7. Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future

Kai Stinchombe asserts, “there is no single person in existence who had a problem they wanted to solve, discovered that an available blockchain solution was the best way to solve it, and therefore became a blockchain enthusiast.”