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Euronet Subsidiary Ria Turns to Ripple Tech Seeking Faster Money Transfers

Ria Money Transfer, one of the world's biggest remittance firms, has joined Ripple's blockchain-based payments network.

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Facebook in Talks to Build Ecosystem for Planned Stablecoin: WSJ

Facebook is said to be in talks with firms, including Visa and Mastercard, to support and fund its planned fiat-backed cryptocurrency.

Facebook

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Central Banks Settle Cross-Border Payments With Blockchain for First Time

The central banks of Canada and Singapore have for the first time settled cross-border payments using blockchain and central bank digital currencies.

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Ex-Ripple CTO Launches Blogging Platform to Pay Content Creators XRP

The Coil blogging platform offers tipping via XRP and in future plans to work with a variety of assets.

Stefan Thomas Coil

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US Income Tax Payers Can Now Get Refunds in Bitcoin

Income tax payers in the U.S. now have the option to receive their federal and state refunds in bitcoin through Bitpay and Refundo.

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Jaguar Land Rover Plans to Give Drivers Crypto in Return for Their Data

Jaguar Land Rover is trialing tech that may soon let drivers earn rewards in the IOTA cryptocurrency for sharing data on road conditions.

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I Tried to Get People to Give Away Bitcoin – And They Did

Some of bitcoin's earliest adopters have made a fortune holding onto the coins, and Connie Gallippi wanted to give them a way to help other people. Turns out bitcoiners are quite the philanthropists too.

BitGive, Connie Gallippi

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Payments Firm Wirex Launching 26 Stablecoins on the Stellar Blockchain

U.K.-licensed payments platform Wirex is launching 26 fiat-backed stablecoins on the Stellar blockchain network.

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Ripple Says Sales of XRP Cryptocurrency Grew 31% in Q1

Blockchain payments startup Ripple has reported a 31 percent quarter-to-quarter increase in sales of XRP.

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You Can Now Shop With Bitcoin on Amazon Using Lightning

Bitcoin spenders can use the lightning network to shop at e-commerce sites like Amazon, thanks to a new browser extension.

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