Can The XRP Ledger Be Hacked? Ripple CTO Reveals Attack Vector

In a recent interview with The Defiant, David Schwartz, Chief Technology Officer at Ripple, shed light on the security mechanisms of the XRP Ledger and the theoretical attack strategies it could face. Schwartz explained that unlike Proof-of-Work systems like Bitcoin, the XRP Ledger relies on a Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) consensus mechanism called the Ripple […] source: https://bitcoinist.com/can-the-xrp-ledger-be-hacked-ripple-cto/