Blockchain

A previous blog post described how to join the ILP testnet. This post is for those who want to go further, and join the first pioneering users of the Interledger live network.

Any participants in the Interledger network can send money to each other. But it’s also possible to send to someone’s cryptocurrency wallet if they don’t know anything about Interledger!

One of the important concepts in Interledger is “chunked payments.” The idea is that you can split a payment into many Interledger packets, in the same way that a file is split into many Internet packets.

In 2011, I predicted that Bitcoin would do to money what the internet has done to information: move it instantly and seamlessly around the world.

SPSP is a application-layer protocol designed for making Interledger payments. It uses an HTTPS endpoint to securely exchange payment details, and then allows the user to send one or more Interledger packets. This tutorial will show you how to: