Re: Blockchains and interledger (left-over question from the workshop)

I’ll add that a blockchain base ledger can serve easily serve in the role of an ILP ledger. All that is needed is to implement the ILP escrowed transfer mechanism.

I see that a key role of the Interledger Protocol will become connecting blockchain based asset management ledgers (stocks, bonds, commodities, cryptocurrencies) together, and also to connect them to existing non-blockchain based ledgers (banks, payment networks).
Bob Way
Integration Architect | Ripple
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> On Mar 1, 2016, at 11:45 AM, Evan Schwartz <evan@ripple.com> wrote:
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> Do you see blockchain as a competing technology? If so, how does the value proposition for interledger stack up against that for the blockchain?
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> ILP is a protocol for transferring value securely across centralized and decentralized ledgers / blockchains. Interledger and blockchains operate at different levels: blockchains are databases, whereas interledger is an approach for connecting different databases. (I would argue that a number of the value propositions attributed to blockchains have been overstated beyond what they're actually good at, and many of them could be achieved in more efficient ways. But's that's a longer discussion)
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