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Ripple Labs Introduce New Clause Obtain Users’ Personal Details

Yashu Gola
Yashu Gola
4 years ago
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Payment protocol company Ripple Labs recently announced an additional step that would require users to submit their personal information to use Ripple network.

In an email sent to its customers last week, the Californian startup said it wanted to bring additional verification procedures for users in order to comply with the ongoing regulatory sketching. “An ecosystem that supports regulatory compliance builds confidence and encourages new participants to use Ripple and contribute volume to the network,” the letter said.

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Most reactions to Ripple Labs’s announcement were vehement. While some believed that the company could have been better if it was headquartered in some other nation, others simply referred it as an opportunistic lobbying too hard to get inside the “legal” circle. But perhaps the most notable comment came from Coinapult co-founder Erik Voorhees who right away called Ripple Labs a “financial technology controlled by only one company”, thereby declaring itself as some sort of bank.

Nevertheless, it would be important to notice that the whole idea of complying-with-the-regulators is not new. Think of the Bitcoin companies trying to enter the Wall Street space, seeking public listings, licenses and dozens of other stuff to declare themselves a properly regulated entities. Like Ripple Labs, even they would be required to seek users’ personal data for usual verifications. The KYC course seems very normal if looked from the eye of the law, even though when it rubbishes the very principle on which Bitcoin was created on.

The news might still come as a surprise to those Ripple fans who, until the announcement, were expecting revolutionary blockchain based decentralized services out of it. The dilemma seems to have ended now, for it has proved itself to be innovative, but the same-old centralized platform like PayPal where users have no control of the network.

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Yashu Gola is a Mumbai-based finance journalist. He is profoundly active in the bitcoin space since 2014 – and has contributed to several cryptocurrency media outlets, including NewsBTC, FxDailyReport, Bitcoinist, and CCN.

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Academically, Yashu holds a bachelor's in information technology, with majors in data structures and C++ programming language. He has also won the 'Atulya Award' for his efforts towards raising $100,000 for an India-based farming project.

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  1. Lars Townsend says:
    10 years ago

    I hardly think KYC rules means that the network is suddenly a centralized paypal clone. And frankly Erik Voorhees’ oppinion is irrelivent. Nobody in the world outside of the hard core libertarian fringe of the bitcoin community cares what he thinks.

    The fact is, the KYC aspect is for Ripple’s rippletrade wallet only. It is open source software and anybody can make their own wallet software or interface directly with the API if they want to avoid most of the identity issues. Bitcoin purests could work exclusively with XRP which can do everything Bitcoins can do, every bit as well and every bit as privacy concious. It is only when you start using the power features like IOUs that Identity actually starts to matter.

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  1. Lars Townsend says:
    10 years ago

    I hardly think KYC rules means that the network is suddenly a centralized paypal clone. And frankly Erik Voorhees’ oppinion is irrelivent. Nobody in the world outside of the hard core libertarian fringe of the bitcoin community cares what he thinks.

    The fact is, the KYC aspect is for Ripple’s rippletrade wallet only. It is open source software and anybody can make their own wallet software or interface directly with the API if they want to avoid most of the identity issues. Bitcoin purests could work exclusively with XRP which can do everything Bitcoins can do, every bit as well and every bit as privacy concious. It is only when you start using the power features like IOUs that Identity actually starts to matter.

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