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It’s officially the holiday season for retailers, and online sales have now taken over brick-and-mortar’s traditional dominance.  Latest research concludes that “Cyber Monday” is more popular now than “Black Friday.”1  The “Amazons” of the world are now the ones profiting from our annual gift-giving traditions, and do you want to know why?  It’s simple, really,..
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It took a while. Did you see the potential?  The founding members of Ripple saw it.  I like to think I saw it.  And a few grizzled veterans of XRPChat and its predecessor social chat forum saw this coming. Ripple is here. I’m talking about “Ripple 2.0,” the organization that has graduated from its start-up..
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A majority of Generation Z would rather give up their sense of smell than their access to a mobile device.  I’m not joking: This statistical fact was revealed in a study by McCann Worldgroup, a global marketing services company.1 Generation Z has now been studied, and they are among us. Yet another shocking example:  I..
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Where are you going to invest your hard-earned money? It’s a decision every one of us has to make, unless you’re one of the few who were fortunate enough to inherit wealth in some way.  The vast majority of us must earn money through diligent service of one kind or another, and for each person..
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Average daily volume of XRP has grown by upwards of 90-150% in the last week.1 What did it?  Was it the SWELL conference?  The additional exchanges that have added XRP to their global currency pairings?  Adoption of xRapid by financial institutions?  Whatever the cause, those of us that actively track volume on a daily basis..
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