Do you know what the word 'dilettante' means (David's email)? Andrew B. Brown (512) 947-8282 http://KidsCourtyard.com On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Adrian Hope-Bailie <adrian@hopebailie.com> wrote: > +1 to David's points. > > I think what Evan is pointing out though is that the discovery of the > various ledgers would likely happen in the setup/application layer protocol. > > We can preserve the single ledger/single currency abstraction and still > support the use case. > > > On 7 March 2017 at 20:10, David Nicol <davidnicol@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> As someone who has been a dilettante on this subject for ~25 years, I >> believe that the right thing to do is as follows: >> >> Ledgers contain accounts. Accounts can represent anything denominated in >> the currency of the ledger. a "ledger supporting multicurrencies account" >> must be interpreted as multiple ledgers administratively linking one >> account in each to the same identity. >> >> The alternative destroys fungibility within the "ledger" abstraction, and >> would require breaking into per-currency "subledgers" anyway, so just don't. >> >> >> David Nicol >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 4:35 AM, Andrew Bransford Brown < >> andrewbb@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> As someone who has done the difficult thinking on this subject for ~15 >>> years, >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 4:15 AM, Evan Schwartz <evan@ripple.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Great question. We are definitely interested in supporting cases where >>>> the receiver has multiple accounts on different ledgers. The main question >>>> is what layer to address this at. >>>> >>>> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 6:09 PM Didier Martin < >>>> didierphmartin@hotmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> As it becomes more and more current that ledgers (from some banks) >>>>> support multicurrencies accounts, >>>>> >>>> -- >> "Have you taken yourself seriously today?" -- the gravity clown >> > >
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