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Topic: XRP Faces Tough Battle against Selloff (Read 124 times)

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September 07, 2018, 07:20:06 PM
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On Friday, Sept. 7, the Ripple price (XRP) is recovering, although the intraday outlook is still mixed. Ripple is trading around 0.2905.
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XRP news are mostly neutral. This week, TransferGo launched a payment channel to India based on XRP technology, which will enable real time transactions.

The channel is going to be available across Europe and, going forward, will enable avoiding most current payment methods where transactions take around two or three days. It is yet unknown which XRP product TransferGo is using, but the reason for basing the transactions on XRP is quite clear: this token is very widespread in India and opens the door to unlimited opportunities there.

Another payment service being launched by TransferGo is also based on XRP. Although it is a bit slower, it is going to be completely free of charge.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said this week that there was no point in replacing fiat currencies with cryptos. Regular money does its job quite alright, he added. In order to contest this point the speed and usability digital money must get much more effective, and while cryptocurrency can function well for overseas transactions, it is still not that useful for everyday payments.


Continue reading: https://www.ccn.com/ripple-price-xrp-faces-tough-battle-against-selloff/
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