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Even though the majority of the cryptocurrency market remained bearish during the week, XRP emerged one of the top gainers. XRP had traded at a low of $0.71 at the beginning of the week before gaining as much as 9%, rallying to $0.7937 during the intraday trading. Ripple’
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The prices of major cryptocurrencies are slightly up at the moment. At 12:45 pm, Bitcoin exchanged hands at $40,530, up by 4.76% in the last 24 hours. Other major altcoins such as Ripple’s XRP, Solana and Avalanche have slightly moved up by 2.25%, 5.41%
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The year 2020 started very eventful in the cryptocurrency space with investors and traders very enthusiastic to see what the year holds in terms of price and development of the industry. Here, we take a look at four (4) major stories that created a buzz in January 2021. Bitcoin Set
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Ripple (XRP) has continued its plunge in price as more global exchanges delist and halt trading for the world's fourth largest coin; in the wake of its suit with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. As at Tuesday (29/12), XRP dropped by more 37% to now bring
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Bitcointreasuries.org reveals holdings by different companies of over 1.1 million in BTC worth over $30 billion. The huge stash of Bitcoin reserves held by well known companies began increasing after billion-dollar firm Microstrategy purchased $250 million in Bitcoin in August. Traditional Investors Look to BTC A significant number
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A cryptocurrency analyst believes that the price of XRP could rise to between $20 and $30 in the next bull run. The highly optimistic figure is significantly larger than the digital tokens all-time high of $2.7697. Analyst's Bold Prediction for Ripple XRP Price Interestingly, the analyst who
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Payments company, Ripple, recently transferred 1,000,000,000 XRP worth $292.8 million. The transfer of one Billion XRP was made in three tranches and settled within seconds, costing the transferors less than a penny. Three Transfers Worth One Billion XRP The transfers were made from Ripple Escrow wallet
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A new survey indicates that cryptocurrency holders in Japan prefer keeping XRP to ETH. 25% of traders surveyed in Japan found XRP to be their favorite coin compared to 26% who preferred BTC and 9% who preferred Ethereum. XRP and ETH in Japan The sample size is noticeably small which
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Ripple's lawsuit woes continue to present obstacles to the digital currency firm as its CEO gets accused of selling 67,000,000 XRP while promoting the asset. Sues for Selling XRP and False Statements The action is said to arise out of a scheme by the defendants to
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Credit card giant Visa has granted its principal membership to US-based cryptocurrency exchange - Coinbase, allowing the crypto exchange to issue debit cards without relying on third parties. . Principal members of Visa are financial institutions that are reportedly authorized to act as “issuing bank,” meaning they could issue cards and
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The National Bank of Egypt (oldest and largest bank in the country) has signed a co-operative agreement with Ripple (parent company of XRP cryptocurrency) to establish new channels for its remittance payments. Remittance - refers to money or goods that individuals send to family and loved ones back in their
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Global money transfer giant MoneyGram has revealed it processes 10% of its US-Mexico cross-border transactions through Ripple’s Payment Solution On-Demand Liquidity (ODL), using the Ripple (XRP) cryptocurrency. The announcement was made by MoneyGram Chairman and CEO Alex Holmes at the recent Ripple Swell 2019 conference in Singapore. He remarked: