XRP enthusiast wEeZiE draws attention to an old article written by Vitalik Buterin, where he admitted borrowing a concept from Ripple to solve the Ethereum scalability problem. The article published in Bitcoin Magazine on January 23, 2014, saw Buterin admit that he borrowed Ethereum’s concept of a separate tree and transaction list from Ripple Labs. The post Old Article Resurfaces From Ethereum Founder Admitting to ‘Borrowing’ Ripple Concept first appeared on The Crypto Basic .