Ripple CTO Emeritus Explains XRPL Hard Forks

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On Monday, Ripple Chief Technology Officer Emeritus David Schwartz acknowledged that the XRP Ledger has had more "technical hard forks" than most established public blockchains.The ledger is currently...

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version, which has prompted some criticism pertaining to the network's consensus. The looming deadline As stated by XRPL dUNL validator Vet, the 3.1.3 update contains a \"fix amendment\" that will activate in nine days.Any node that has not updated to version 3.1.3 by the deadline will no longer be able to communicate with the network. As of May 18, only 40% of the network had successfully updated.Some critics have questioned the mechanics of the XRPL's consensus model (given that the 60% majority of nodes could actually be forked off for running older software). Frequent hard forksSchwartz is not on board with the idea of a simple \"one node one vote\" system determining the mainnet. He pointed out that bad actors could easily game such a scheme by spinning up dozens of fake nodes, which is known as a Sybil attack.Schwartz confirmed that the XRP Ledger's fundamental design requires these types of upgrades to function as hard forks.\"It is true that XRPL has more events that are 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