The decentralized cryptographic ledger and the house of Ripple’s native cryptocurrency, XRP Ledger index 49624361 contained 370 transactions and the closing time for the ledger was just 3.5 seconds in the early hours of 28th August. The total fees for the transactions executed was 26.27 XRP. This event was tweeted by a Twitter user called...Read More
Ripple’s efforts towards XRP adoption led to a partnership with SBI Holdings, which led the way to a joint venture “SBI Ripple Asia”, to promote the use of the Virtual currency in Asian markets. Under the said partnership, SBI announced Shareholder Benefits Campaign to grant them with 30 XRP, on August 28. An excerpt from...Read More
Wietse Wind, XRPL developer, creator of the XRPTipBot and XRP Text, announced on Twitter today that the XRPL Testnet provided by Ripple had been reset. Please note: the XRPL Testnet provided by @Ripple has been reset (this happens every now and then: a fresh testnet ?). I just gave the @XRPLLabs testnet node (wss://testnet.xrpl-labs.com) a...Read More
Ripple has substantially reduced XRP sales. While Ripple had claimed to have remained transparent about the actual figures of XRP sales in its recent market report, the blockchain firm was at the receiving end of allegations which claimed that it provided manipulated figures. One of the front-runners of the industry, Ripple, has drawn passionate and...Read More
Ripple price is struggling to climb higher above the $0.2750 and $0.2800 resistances against the US dollar.Bitcoin price failed to climb above the key $10,500 resistance level and declined recently.A major bullish trend line with support near $0.2670 is at risk on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Kraken).The pair could...Read More
The latest XRP wealth distribution statistics showed interesting insights into rising trends by the XRP holders over a period of three months. According to the latest XRP Richlist Stats, which monitors the trend line for the XRP wealth distribution, only 0.01% of the total XRP accounts have a balance of more than 14,231,299 XRP, which,...Read More
A plethora of advances made by the XRPL developers in terms of solidifying XRP’s usage have enhanced the coin’s adoption rates. The creator of popular XRPTipBot, a platform that enables sending and receiving of XRP tokens on social media platforms like Discord, Twitter and Reddit, XRPL Labs’ Lead Developer Wietse Wind was on the forefront...Read More
The speculations to CZ’s Twitter teaser have proven to be true – Binance has now announced the upcoming launch of its crypto lending service. Users can earn up to 15% interest on BNB and other assets. Binance has officially announced its lending service which is expected to kick off on the 28th of August, at...Read More
2019 was deemed as a positive year for virtual assets as a majority of the crypto experienced a positive hike; XRP surged in the market as well which took its valuation from $0.300 to $0.475, registering a growth of over 58 percent. However, recent bearish pullback impacted XRP’s price to take a dip below its...Read More
Ripple price is holding the $0.2650 support and is correcting higher against the US dollar.Bitcoin price rallied 5%, but it failed to continue above the $10,500 resistance area.There is a key major bullish trend line with support near $0.2680 on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Kraken).The pair is likely to...Read More
The year 2019 has been rough for XRP solely because of its price. As the new year set in, XRP’s price consolidated mainly between the price range $0.2604 and $0.3834. After numerous tries, the third-largest coin broke out from the consolidating price range but eventually had to return after 56 days. Since then, the price...Read More
Another day, another cryptocurrency theft. | Source: Shutterstock By CCN Markets: 7News Sydney reports that Katherine Nguyen is the first-ever Australian resident to plead guilty for cryptocurrency fraud after stealing 100,000 XRP. In 2018, twenty-four-year-old Nguyen hijacked the email account of an elderly man of the same surname for two days before handing back access....Read More
The previous year had been ruthless to cryptocurrencies, however, this year has been all about recovering from the bear’s attack for most coins but one. XRP’s adoption spree is evident, but that has not helped it break away from the continuous consolidation pattern the coin has been subjected to. As it goes through minor crests...Read More
XRP has not been having a great year, in terms of price as the market reports negative YTD returns for Ripple’s native token. However, XRP has been on an adoption spree since the beginning of the year, Ripple’s recent partnership with MoneyGram being an illustrious example. Despite the technology and institutional partnerships turning heads, the...Read More
XRP whales continued to remain active in the market, despite the continuous sideways price movement of Ripple’s native coin. One of these whales was caught in the act of transfering significant amount of funds in XRP by Whale Alert, one of the web’s major cryptocurrency transaction trackers. Whale Alert shared news of the same on...Read More
XRP had been falling since the beginning of the year, while other coins experienced their own share of ups and downs in the market. However, the YTD returns of XRP have been disappointing, with the popular altocin recording a YTD of -23.85%. The coin doesn’t seem to be finding respite, even in the short term,...Read More
On August 9, 2019, Twitter user and developer H_M_X_ (@hmatejx), a member of the XRP community, announced that he will be releasing an automatic detector for Ripple xRapid transactions from US Dollars to Mexican Pesos. Automatic detection of xRapid transactions from Bitstamp (USD) to Bitso (MXN) comming soon… pic.twitter.com/d7CQmsbGwF — H_M_X_ (@hmatejx) August 9, 2019...Read More
Ripple, a real-time gross settlements system and remittance network, had recently announced a strategic partnership with MoneyGram, one of the world’s foremost money transfer companies. Immediately after this partnership went live, XRP/MXN volume on Bitso rose by 25%. Breanne M. Madigan of Global Institutional Markets at Ripple commented, “New (and notable) data shows that although...Read More
Bhavin Vaghela, Xendpay’s Head of Product Innovation. Photo: Ripple Ripple announced that they went into the partnership with the UK remittance firm Xendpay therefore widening their portfolio made from big companies that are already using Ripple’s product across their payment services – MoneyGram, Standard Chartered Bank, American Express etc. From Xendpay they disclosed what kind...Read More
According to expert predictions, the Bitcoin dominance registered on CoinMarketCap has been tweaked for liquidity. Forecasting that in reality, the dominance could cripple the survival of Altcoins. As the current value of Bitcoin hovers around $10,000, it’s dominance upsurges in correspondence. According to CoinMarketCap’s estimate as at Thursday, 5th August. BTC dominance was sitting around seventy...Read More
Ripple price started an upside correction after trading as low as $0.2580 against the US dollar.Bitcoin price is back above $10,000, but it is facing many important resistances near $10,250.Yesterday’s followed key declining channel with resistance near $0.2670 was breached on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Kraken).The pair is now...Read More
UK-based international money transfer company Xendpay is the newest member to join Ripple Net, which will give Ripple access to markets in Bangladesh, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Thailand. Ripple posted on its blog that Xendpay provides “some of the most competitive rates on cross-border money transfers” which also offering customers “the option to waive...Read More
Bitcoin and altcoins are forming a strange correlation as of late, according to data provided by market analyst Ceteris Paribus.The noted cryptocurrency trader found that leading altcoins plunged massively every time bitcoin tested or hinted to check the $10,000 level. Between June and August 21, bitcoin closed above the $10,000 mark four times. And each...Read More
On Aug 21, 2019, kompany announced that their API platform, BREX, had brought 5 more XRP Ledger validator nodes live, for a total of 6 nodes verifying thousands of transactions each, every day. And now there are 6 – We’re happy to announce that kompany’s #API Platform BREX has taken 5 more #RippleNet XRP Ledger...Read More
Ripple price is following a bearish path and it recently broke the $0.2700 support against the US dollar.Bitcoin price is down around 8% and it settled below the key $10,000 support area.There is a major declining channel forming with resistance near $0.2680 on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Kraken).The pair...Read More
Vitalik Buterin was in the news after speaking to the newspaper, ‘Toronto Star’, and stating that “Scalability is a big bottleneck because the Ethereum blockchain is almost full.” High transaction fees are obstructing widespread adoption, he said. His words were, “If you’re a bigger organization, the calculus is that if we join, it will not...Read More
Ripple has been touted as a disrupter in many ways to the legacy remittance service platforms; with the partnership with London-based remittance firm, Xendpay, Ripple is all set to extend the former’s initiative of ‘optional transfer fees’, where customers are given an option to waive fees with a service called Pay What You Want. According...Read More
Photo: A1 Austria’s telecommunications giant and the country’s largest mobile service provider A1 has officially announced accepting cryptocurrency payments at some of its store locations across Austria. In the official announcement, A1 states that in its pilot project, they will accept cryptocurrency payments at some A1 shops while demonstrating global businesses that integrating digital currency...Read More
This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material. Bitcoin.com is not responsible for or liable for any content, accuracy or quality within the press release. 21/08/2019, London: Kinesis is proud to announce a partnership with CoolBitX Technology, the developers of the world’s first...Read More
Cardano Price Analysis (ADA/USD) The price of ADA/USD pair has recorded an impressive price recovery over the intraday. The price-performance is bullish with an upsurge gain of 11%. The market escalated from where it closed yesterday at $0.04719 where it is currently trading at $0.05027. Additionally, the market began the session with a bullish pressure...Read More
