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In a recent interview on Anthony Pompliano’s Off The Chain podcast, Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple, provided unprepared answers to questions sourced from crypto Twitter regarding the operations of Ripple and XRP, Ripple’s XRP sales, and the cryptocurrency ecosystem broadly. Garlinghouse recounts discovering Bitcoin and cryptocurrency while attending the Dialog conference – a two-day “thought retreat“ organized by Peter Thiel and Auren Hoffman, in 2012. Despite subsequently investing...

The chief among other cryptocurrency exchanges by volume, Binance, released a statement on Thursday to notify all and sundry that a new trading pair has been included in its decentralized exchange (DEX), and this will be the second cryptocurrency to be accorded such privilege.The trading pair XRP-BNB is listed as XRP-BF2, and Binance has already minted 10 million of the pair for its decentralized exchange. Before XRP-BF2 came along, Binance had added a Bitcoin pegged variant, BTCB, in June...

Samsung Electronics America has officially announced that it will collaborate with the fintech firm, Finablr. The partnership aims to launch an international money transfer service that will operate through the Samsung Pay app. The service currently targets US users and Finablr’s subsidiary Travelex powers it.Official information shows that Finablr is a listed partner of Ripple in London. Nonetheless, this deal with Samsung has no involvement from Ripple or XRP. An official announcement...

Ripple Labs Inc has taken one more step in consolidating its global remittances and payments network with a new partnership with London-based Fintech firm Finastra. The company announced this yesterday in a statement indicating the partnership will offer Finastra’s customers access to Ripple’s Mainnet blockchain. Being one of the most successful banking software solutions firms in the world, Finastra offers software solutions to all across the financial value chain and the global linkages it...

Photo: ShutterstockWhen Facebook announced it is going with its own cryptocurrency Libra back in June, the CEO of Ripple Labs Inc., a US-based technology company, Brad Garlinghouse, was one of its first open supporters.Actually, he was so thrilled by the whole project and all the ‘fuss’ it had gathered in the crypto community that he decided to send the champagne to the Zuckerberg & Co.Be it as it may, a hard times has come to Libra, even before it actually came to circulation. As we had...

In what seems to be a return to bearish tendencies, Bitcoin price has dipped below $8,000 overnight, fortunately, major altcoins haven’t followed suit this time. At the time of writing, BTC was down 0.83% to $7,967.00.The altcoins, on the other hand, have fared differently with each altcoin seeming to find its ground. Ethereum (ETH) is down 0.51% to $174.16, XRP is up 5.44% to $0.27, EOS is up 1.27%, Tether down 0.71% to $1 while Litecoin is down by 0.97% to $55.68. Several factors may be...

Ripple price is currently recovering and is trading above the $0.2500 resistance against the US dollar.The price is likely to break the $0.2700 and $0.2850 resistance levels in the near term.There is a key bullish trend line forming with support near $0.2515 on the 4-hours chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Bittrex).The price remains well supported on dips near the $0.2600 and $0.2550 levels.Ripple price is showing positive signs above $0.2600 against the US Dollar. XRP price is...

The price of XRP, the native cryptocurrency of Ripple’s blockchain network, has increased by 27% in 3 days. The rally of XRP comes during a period in which most major cryptocurrencies have been struggling against the U.S. dollar amidst a market pullback. The XRP price has increased by 27% in 3 days against the USD (source; coinmarketcap.com)Around the same time frame, the price of bitcoin has declined from $8,200 to $7,800 and the price of Ethereum has slipped from $177 to $169. Possible...

Coinbase, that is a well-known large crypto exchange based in the U.S., has taken a decision to reinstated GBP moves targeted at its UK users. This has become known from the recently published official blog post.The company has further incorporated full support for five brand new crypto assets: XRP, Stellar (XLM), Augur (REP), 0x (ZRX) and Basic Attention Token (BAT) – to GBP digital wallets as the firm reported on a material day. Successful Cooperation between Coinbase and Clearbank Last...

XRP is the third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap and it is probably the only cryptocurrency with established relationships with traditional financial institutions. If you’ve been following cryptocurrencies, you’ll probably be wondering if you should buy XRP in 2019. XRP was released in 2012 by Ripple Labs Inc with the singular aim of becoming a blockchain-powered solution for sending money across borders seamlessly.You probably won’t be excited to buy XRP in 2019 when you consider the...