Ripple's Decentralization Strategy
Copied from the following link: https://www.xrpchat.com/topic/16362-rippled-0810-released/?do=findComment&comment=191441 mDuo13 wrote this. Kudos to him. To recap the Decentralization Strategy, here's a summary: Switch to using a validator list site (vl.ripple.com). This is where we are now. All rippled instances configured to use the site can automatically follow Ripple's updates to the recommended set of validators, in lockstep. In case you're curious, the validator list site publishes cryptographically signed recommendations of validators, so it's not easy to impersonate. And rippled caches the data it gets from the site, so the XRP Ledger won't go down even if vl.ripple.com is down for a while. (It might be tough to bring new rippled servers online while vl.ripple.com is down, but I think there are some protections against that, too.) Update the site and the existing validators to use validator tokens instead of master validator secret key...