The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis can compete with bitcoin as currency, but not payments, said David Andolfatto.
Ripple is on the lookout for developers and entrepreneurs, hoping to attract third-party support for its payments protocol.
A new London-based exchange for trading gold bullion and bitcoin is set to open on 21st February.
The investor has revealed that he has started work on a secret bitcoin-related project, but remains elusive.
A new service uses the Ripple network to acquire, store and convert precious metals into 'any currency'.
The creator of Ripple, Jed McCaleb, has donated $500,000 in XRP to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI).
Plug and Play's virtual currency panelist discussion attracted over 100 investors and corporations.
The US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs is holding its hearing on virtual currencies next week.
Decentralised online payment network Ripple Labs has received a further $3.5m in funding.
Ripple will now accept cash thanks to a partnership between Ripple gateway SnapSwap, and ZipZap.
Ripple, OpenCoin's decentralised payment system and currency, is to be open sourced at the end of September.
Bitcoin's finest have launched a self-regulatory group. Will it be enough to mitigate regulatory pains?
At Bitcoin London yesterday OpenCoin announced that Ripple users can now make bitcoin payments directly from the Ripple client.
Five days after the giveaway began, Ripple is still trickling its XRP currency into the market, a thousand ripples at a time.
Chris Larsen wants to make waves with Ripple, his new combined altcurrency and payment network. But when will he make it open source?