Barrapunto

Dado que estamos en Slashdot, no he leído el artículo, pero eso se parece poco al whuffie. El whuffie no está ligado a lo material, la escasez ha sido superada.

Lo primero que se me ha ocurrido es que lo usasen aficionados a la ópera y a la pasta, pero leo esto en el FAQ:

Won't criminals abuse Ripple's potential for anonymity?

No, for two reasons: One, no electronic currency can ever be as anonymous as cash; and two, criminals don't trust their friends.

Some people might not trust a transaction through a chain of anonymous intermediaries, and might prefer to receive payment only through completely non-anonymous transactions. However, such non-anonymous practices present a huge opening for rampant information harvesting by unauthorized third parties. Since each node in an intermediary chain knows who the previous and following nodes are, in cases of fraud involving anonymous intermediaries the nodes involved can be uncovered by asking each node in sequence, with the cooperation of node server administrators.

Ripple does not provide absolute protection in any way for those engaging in fraud, simply protection from casual prying eyes. Authenticating the identity of buyers, by any method, should afford sufficient protection to sellers.

Me recuerda más a The Great Simoleon Caper [metaweb.com], aunque hace tiempo que lo leí.

Habría que estudiar cómo es de susceptible a impuestos.

Si solucionase los fallos de las propuestas presentes de micropagos, podría tener mucha ventaja. Habrá que verlo.