Latest XRP Ledger Release Boosts Censorship Resistance and More

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Blockchain payments infrastructure firm Ripple has announced the latest release of XRP Ledger.

According to a release issued by Ripple on Thursday, version 1.2.0 of the ledger introduces a number of changes, including making the network more resistant to censorship - that is, no single entity can decide which transactions succeed or fail, and no one can alter a transaction after it is added to the ledger.

"Already highly resistant to censorship attempts, with the release of version 1.2.0 of the XRP Ledger, servers now have the ability to automatically detect transaction censorship attempts and issue warnings of increasing severity for transactions that a server believes should have been included in a closed ledger after several rounds of consensus."

The MultiSignReserve amendment allows owners of signer lists for authorization method Multisign to participate with a reserve of just 5 XRP, down from the previous 15-50 XRP. The release also lists a host of smaller updates and amendments, along with minor bug fixes.

Operators of XRP Ledger servers should upgrade to version 1.2.0 by Feb. 27, "To ensure service continuity," the firm said.

Ripple itself started rolling out the upgrade across all its XRP Ledger servers, including private clusters, from 22:00 UTC on Wednesday, Feb. 13.

The firm's relationship with XRP has proved a tricky one at times.

"While the coin doesn't represent an ownership stake in Ripple, the concern is the close relationship might still lead regulators to deem XRP a security," a Bloomberg report from April 2018 said.

Last month, the first bank, U.K.-based Exim, said it was using XRP for cross-border payments.

Currently the third cryptocurrency by market capitalization, XRP is currently trading at around $0.30, according to data from CoinMarketCap - that's a 92 percent drop from its all-time high of $3.80 in January 2018.

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