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Western Union has announced a partnership with Ripple! I think this news can return the price of ripple 3$.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-13/western-union-says-it-s-testing-transactions-with-ripple

If you see 2$ again immediately go away :) it is of  course joke. Good luck and a lot of benefit!

Ahah, Yes, thank you) to be honest, I don't like ripple either. I think XRP is not real cryptocurrency. But this news gives us a chance to get a good profit)

Yes ripple has been giving some good news from time to time, and you can definatelly have some profits on it, but in general crypto people dont love ripple because for what it stands for

Whole scene is full of nothing but good news since new year. Don't put too many stock into news, they aren't the market movers. People with a lot of money are and you can be sure they won't be moving the market in a way you will find pleasing.

About Ripple.. I know greed is universal, but try to at least understand what you are buying. Even in the miracle case for XRP it will still be useless and a pure speculative push. The founder is really good at getting money though, he made another XRP called XLM, which people buy too, for reasons I'm entirely oblivious to.

Wow this is a great news, if this will go and be done, ripple will have more than 3x price in the market then.
but what will happen next after the hype? well i hope this tie up will be good for a long time and not just a hype like coinbase.

ripple is a very interesting altcoin. the graphics are constantly changing. ripple that constantly strengthens itself in them. it becomes popular every day.

This news will help solidify XRP and help it gain traction again

No matter how negative I am about the Ripple project, I still hope that the Ripple project will grow several times, but it seems impossible, because with such a large capitalization it is very difficult to do

If Western Union accepts Ripple into their payment platform then Ripple would see a huge value increase.

Wew, isn't it great now you can send money through western union and they will receive it as Ripple, I think this will be their for step to encourage some people to try their service and to buy some Ripple amount for their self.

is it because he's the founder of Mt Gox and you do not believe in his new project XLM and XRP?
or does his project do not fit your expectations?

it is not unexpectedly ripple will be good reputation,
a lot of big companies want to join the ripple,
and that's a positive value

One of the main advantage of Ripple network is it's speed and that is undoubtedly the most part of a coin that will be considered reliable, safe and secure.
Western Union doesn't easily point random coins to be partnered but also they are conducting surveys and qualification standard testing etc.
Before they came up with Ripple they eventually testing our some coins that could provide their needs so Ripple for me is the most qualified in this term and I know that WU doesn't wrong on choosing RIpple as their official partner in the future.
Ripple has indeed the speed, scalability and reliability, if other coins does but Ripple is more than  that.

Indeed, large companies are more reliable on choosing their Crypto Partner instead of just making their own Blockchain.
Many who really pissed off about Mr. John McAfee's tweets and those are whole shit tweets that would create millions of invested will be transfered into his pockets.
Western Union  and other giant companies who are eying Ripple as their future official Blockchain partner is one of the most reliable earning of trust to be invested.
This time, investors were trying to invest as early as they can because Ripple will soon go to the moon in the next few weeks and months.

That’s great news about Ripple…

But I think it will take time if we look at Ripple graph it shows the destination is much far, its value rises up very slowly but drop down in sudden.

So it will be in boom but will take time, everything is possible in crypto world.

I do not take your phrase as a joke. This speculative instrument can certainly show some Xs. But in fundamental, it has no prospects.

I think the ripple price will go back to 3 $ when bitcoin returns to $ 15,000, we all know that all altcoins are down because bitcoin has decreased significantly. so expect bitcoin to go back to the price of 15000 $ +. did not rule out the ripple going back to 3 $. hopefully we get good news continuously about bitcoin. because i have a ripple too.

Yeah this is just going to be Ripple sitting and being used in the background, the customer will never see or be able to use XRP itself.
Santander also recently announced that they were going to be using the Ripple network https://www.coindesk.com/santander-uk-ripple-payment-app/

Using Ripple Inc network has nothing to do with xrp.

WU is a dead man walking.
With thousand of coins available some of them next to no fee who is mad enough to pay crazy high fees to an unnecessary middle man.
Crypto is a about peer to peer dealings and not have two companies in the middle taking part of the paycheck.


How long will mad gamblers sent there paycheck to someone else's account? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2903039.msg29852549#msg29852549)

Yes! Ripple going to rise.
Now ripple value is $1.07. Pumping is on. It can touch again $2 and then $3.
Really ETH, LTC, Waves and Next Ripple is best coin. Then see the news its really great, Ripple Holder will be great happy if really it is.

Well maybe it's going to be hyped again but I have little doubts it's going to the moon, maybe just would survive for a next year.

i dont like bank and the banker. so whatever the price could be, i will never ever hold ripple.
i dont want they have control in this world.

LOL stop shilling dude,western union didnt announce any partnership.This coin is a centralized shitcoin by the bankers which is created to destroy our decentralized community by dominating in the market,if this coin succeed most of the altcoins will be dictated by this timebomb.I hate the banking system why i joined cryptocurrency community why would i support this banker's coin?

Ripple's exchange rates versus Bitcoin have fallen today by 3%, which means that the rumors about the partnership with Western Union is another piece of fake propaganda. For me, it looks heavily over-priced. My advice would be to avoid Ripple like plague.

People don't like Ripple, because it is centralized and it kills all the fun in crypto :D

True that. That's why lot of people turned away from that bankers coin. It's lot of decentralized good coins in the world to pay attention to them.

maybe this time Western Union gets involved with Ripple then ditches them like their banks did and makes themselves a new (more) centralized version of Ripple and takes advantage of it.
they can call it WU coin and get to competing with bitcoin in their dreams thinking they have created a valid competitor ;)

good news, but I think the takeoff will be in tandem with the rest of the coins

For sure there would be a great impact with the current value, if this partnership will be for a long term purposes, then we will see a big hyped to happen as partnership will bring usage this coin where many new investors will practice to place their money into it, I guess the only matters here is if they can continue to give further updates if this news is legit and really came from the ripple and western union company, as we seen more fake news that happen previously and make a huge impact and also create a big dumped.

Ripple has a lot of good news but its price do not always correlate with it :) anyway it is good coin and this coin should be in every portfolio

Ripple is looking very strong right now. I wish I had bought some at it's lowest. Still not to late.

I think a Ripple may reach at least $5, if some big players will back on the market.

really awesome news.ripple is very strong coin and we see ripple has been giving many good news from time to time. ripple is centralized coin but this news help to grow ripple price. hope ripple will hit $5 and we earn good profit.

of course, I totally believe the value of XRP. There are many banks have accepted the Ripple technology and XRP price will reach new target.

It's better not to assume. Just wait and see what happens. Assumptions are more likely to cause disappointment - better to not expect an announcement and be pleasantly surprised :)

Even though today there was a good news for Ripple on partnership with Western Union, the hipe did not happen as the price is rather stable with least growth rate comparing to others from top 10. Hopefully, there will be more solid news that will build on further ripple valuation as it has got big potential to grop. The market cap does not really matter. What matters is acknowledgement of Ripple by large banks arong the world as a substitute to traditional money transfer systems. If that happens in near future, Ripple has god huge potential to growth. However, there is a likelihood  that traditional transfer systems such as Visa will develop its own blockchain technology which would be able to compete with Ripple or any other potential rival. Therefore, it would be interesting to see who will eventually come to finish as a winner...  

One reason why most turned down ripple is because they listen to the fud form the start. When someone didn't bought XRP when the price was below $0.10 that is because they listen to the fud. Now that it turned a dollar, they now regret not buying and as a result they hated more of XRP lol if the price went $3 again, I'm pretty sure they will hate it even more.

I have more faith in XLM than XRP though, even though I have kept a bit still in XRP just in case it gets pumped.

The reason being that banks/organizations can sign up to use the Ripple network, but they are not obligated to use XRP at all.

As for XLM, it is pushing hard for adoption in SE-Asia and poorer countries; so it has that going for it + it is substantially less centralized like XRP, and will continue to become even more decentralized as more small businesses adopts it.

but I did not doubt this project at all, because I had long been convinced of the transition to the technology of blocking all financial structures. And this project gives good and promising results in the future.

Bloomerg is just a paid websites from these fudders,its a very unreliable source of cryptocurrency news they are getting paid for most of their fake news.We shouldnt be rejoicing until the official statement from western union be release if it is really true well congrats to the bag holders of this centralized shitcoin.

I hope so cus I invested some into Ripple. That would be terrible if the Ripple will go red. But the trades are always about the risk.  ;)

People think all this partnership and other stuff happening with Ripple is good but then they forget the fundamentals around which Ripple was designed. All of Crypto is designed to be decentralized currency but Ripple...................... Ripple doesn't follow the same principle. It was created with centralized fundamentals and this is why this is widely supported by banks and other financial institutions such as Western Union.

People really need to think what they are getting into than just invest to get some profits and not understanding what they are promoting.

ripple will go to the moon, but, we should patience.

likely to ripple still hampered some things. more into the spotlight seemed to fall on XLM. These coins began many highlighted because development was very rapid and very reliable even give you an advantage.

Here in the Philippines, Ripple are negotiating one of our biggest telecom company, they want ripple to have a direct wallet where they can buy something or pay something using the ripple through scanning or sending ripple directly as a payment. Well most of the holder here invest alot because they believed the future of this coin.

Let's hope it is indeed this week was a good week for ripple because today alone is starting to look its development. therefore should at least begin to rise and not silent anymore because of all the coins also have started to rise.

Where do you see that WU going to use Xrp? They approved that they just tested ripple tech. Nobody wants to sign partnerships as I understand correctly.

if you are sure then do it but my advice do not be too ambitious in trading because it will lead you to a bitter loss, better if you take a little profit

This is good news for those who believe in ripple. However, there are still many investors and traders who are not convinced about the power of ripple including me. But still good news is good news, it will bring and attract investments from traders and new investors alike just be careful because it is still not consider a cryptocurrency.

Link to it?

I'm from Philippines too, I may not be in the local section of this forum for most of the time but I have posted sometimes in the Philippines section. I have no idea what you just told us here which telecom, if you can provide the link of your source, post it.

Such a thing will never happen. Ripple is not a coin to be invested in. A balloon that we have seen many times before and do not trust.
And that balloon popped ;)

More and more new banks join the ripple, just what is the benefit to ordinary people. A centralized coin that shows what awaits us if the whole market is under state control.

I think you should stay away from ripple. If you already bought wait until $2 and sell them all ripple and dont buy again.

Ripple coming to Coinbase? Anyone thinks this is absurd?
https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/ripple/usd

no, the only reason is i hate the banker . that is it
most of my money is in crypto, properties and only less than 0,1% in bank.
because i dont want them take advantage/control my wealth.
so that is why i will never hold ripple, whatever price could be


most people here, because we want to take our independent from the bank.
if you want to support centralized coin like ripple, that is your call.
but i love decentralized and when they(ripple company and the founders) decided to sell all of their own ripple.
ripple price will fall worse than you can imagine

Same here. I like Ripple before until I've discovered the real plan of their owners because this coin was made for those bankers to manipulate the total supply of BTC and ETH. Take note 60% total supply of Ripple was held by the owners don' be shock if someday then dumped it just to get your BTC and ETH.

If you are going to look at the market, you can see that XRP one of those tokens which is trying to enter our daily life through banks and other financial companies. If XRP will be implemented in banks, so it will be used by every person, due to the fact that all people in the world are somehow connected to the bank(for example credit cards).

It means that at this moment XRP looks like good investment, but don’t forget to sell it at the right moment, because it is obvious that there is going to be more companies which will try to get XRP place.

i was thinking the same like you dude. I hate banker, They are try to dominating everything. When people are realizing about what they are talking about. And then they will know about the fact that the ripple just a project with the team try to regulate all of the things in the cryptocurrency. We know that till this time crypto doesn't need strict regulation to make it growth a lot. But recently CEO of ripple stated if he was supporting the more regulation in the cryptocurreny. And what's next?

Yes Ripple partners too many big names this week hopefully will see the magic on upcoming days!

It seems Ripple oversaturated market with announces and everyone now waits for
real use case, not announces for pertnerships and technology testing :)

I think it will bring in a lot of users because of course there will be many people who are interested in seeing big agencies like Western union or banks start to glance at the ripple. I was amazed by the development of ripple a few weeks ago. because this coin became very popular even beat popularity of bitcoin because the price rose so high up to $3 in a short time. I think news like this will raise the price of ripple to the moon again

I know there is a lot of crypto users that hates ripple bacause of not being decentralized and I respect their opinion but as a trader this news will be one of the catalyst for a price rise.

 People who really do not know much about crypto will trust ripple because of the countries and companies that xrp partnered with.

Ripple holders will surely be excited for this upcoming days.

ripple coins always try to increase its value to be better or at least remain stable. they cooperate with reputable companies and it's a very good effort. hopefully this be good news for people who have ripple

Ripple is going to have big price changes in May 2018. That`s ending quarter for financial institutes in Asia.

Ripples price is 1,2$ now. i hope it will be change and grow to over 2$. It will be really good moment to get good profit. But we will see

Ripple is picking up momentum and expected to reach 10 dollars by this year end the kind of tie-ups Ripple is doing with Chinese bank and Saudi Arabia western union and many more companies are on discussion we can expect more tir ups before june

Ripple will hit big price within short possible of time. Don't be panic about the price. It is a really a great news to read that WU are using it. Wait for another great news from ripple.

Voting on best  Ripple XRP (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2962004.msg30414543#msg30414543) features.

I also hope that soon the ripple will fly to the moon. I've been waiting for this moment for a very long time. Many analysts said that the ripple was to become much more expensive in early February.

couple of days already had some good news on the ripple, but so far he is not particularly growing, now the bitcoin is growing and altos are losing their price in bitcoin

probably to moon! they have announced partnership with western union and UAE exchange as well!

The Waves platform is growing very slowly. Ethereum is opening up differently. Well, what about Waves? I think Waves will come at good prices. But it requires patience.

Ripple is a potential coin and for sure if you have that you can gain a lot of profit after few years of waiting so better to buy ripple now.  Count to think of it from cents to $1 for sure they have more people who become rich from their thousands of dollars who bought ripple ast year ago.  I hope my ripple will not sold last year but my decision is wrong but now I buy again ripple and hold it for few years.

Ripple should work on their system well so we can fully understand its function and I believe on this coin and it can make good profit for you. but you have to be careful cause this coin is centralized and can control the market so better for you to always set the target price to secure some profit.

I think with this great news Ripple could hit ATH again, this few month there are some big companies attracted to cooperate with XRP and it can make XRP become more expensive, and it is possible that XRP could replace eth position again, a coin backed up by big companies is going to be a good coin for long term investment

This move by Western Union might really somehow push ripples market cap and price again. It's also a good indication how entities are embracing the blockchain technology and this will be a turning point for others for sure.

It should be like that, but in fact until now ripple is still struggling in the price of 10,000-11,000 sathosi

Maybe this is good news for owners of ripple or anew that want to invest in a ripple, while the price is high yet so invest now anyway.

Everyone is hoping for $4 again of ripple
Ripple is still closing partnership and may prove use cases
Fundamental matters when the dust settles https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/ripple/usd

very exciting news and of course will be the attraction to invest in a ripple, hopefully with the existence of this increasingly make the ripple of the high price.

This is good for the banks themselves, but what does this mean to ordinary people or do you think that the ripple will raise prices. If it is not the one you want to expect, and we will always be left with crumbs.

Honestly, Ripple will have a great potential in a long term. And their best advantage over other currencies that have a weak price ( like, Cardano, IOTA, Nem.. ) which it is the  huge value of Market Cap ( $ 44 Billion Dollars ) . Moreover, many capitalists are investing in Ripple because they consider that this currency will rise in value significantly in the future and they expect it to become better than Bitcoin ( and for me , It is very difficult to achieve this) . In fact, I think that the price of XRP will rise slowly in this period, but after 1-2 month, it will grow with a fast way and maybe it will become between $ 5 and $ 10. So this is a good period to buy and invest a big amount of Ripple.

if this news can make ripple grow again,after 3 days of posting this you should have see the result but as far as i can see,nothings change ripples price remains 1$?so that 3$ that your waiting,maybe for another months possibly if the banks do actions to promote their coin ripple

That's good news, with western union announcing partnership with ripples, it will be able to increase the price of ripples. Ripples will be more stable and have the potential to continue to grow.

With Bitcoin and ETH rising again, but Ripple somehow not moving, I think this will happen when BTC stays stable again in the next few days.
I hope we can quickly get back to the 2$ level again, but probably we will stay around 1.3-1.5$. Also starting from next week, many asians will start to invest back. New year is over and holidays are till next week.

Exactly and by what banks do with ripple holdings is to control or manipulate the price growth more likely. I can't think until what they are going to do with the price and for my own review i don't believed in xrp its only a money making altcoin now.

It is gonna be an experiment but still a great news.

Ersek said, "...so far, it's not something to report that we're going to change the environment. Our existing capability is very stable, as you can see from our performance, but that's something that we're taking seriously and looking at it and testing."

Honestly I am really really surprised why ripple price is still stuck at this level. They have one of the best use cases in real world out of all tokens and they have been established deal after deal. Probably the hate is because Ripple company holds a large number of tokens. Once more banks start using XRapid tech which will use XRP tokens for cross border settlement , which I guess will reduce the tokens owned by the company the price will start going up again

Ripple is growing very well and I think it will hit high value this year. Future plans in 2018 if the XRP management team is determined to make the right route, I think XRP is entirely up to the moon because the community is very supportive of the XRP and that is a very good opportunity its.

Ripple is in a good pricerange right now and it will rally with bitcoin again sooner or later. We already saw that two times, but watch out for the top... I think ripple will dip again after huge spikes .

It was at 18 cents not so long ago, so honestly, I have no idea where this one is going. But I think it will find stable support around the current price.

That's great news and hopefully it works out too. It would be an advantage for those who bought Ripple at such a low price. Will be looking out for more of their news and keep myself updated too.

You can talk a lot about ToTheMoon Ripple, but I'll upset you, it's already passed in December, now you'll have to wait a long time for the next trip ToTheMoon!  8)

I have many order`s (buy XRP) with prise 30 cents per token. I think this was just buble with xrp prise 3$... Time will tell, just wait

The xrp charts are looking promising let's see if it breaks above 1.20 and stays there, it failed 3 times in the past 10 days.

Long term i'm still unsure about it, we're going to need some proof that ripple's technology is useful for the banks(they are doing tests right now) and that xrp has a real use.

Long-term investment in Ripple is comitting suicide . Ripples are super fluctuative and it could be 0.25$ or 3$ in anytime.
The only thing we could do with it is surfing for profits. Never hold ripples for a long time , specially don't buy when it's at high price.
I'm the one who hold Ripples at 0.27$ and sell at 1$ , few days after it went to 3$ but i'm not regret about it because i already made the profits.

Ripple is a budding cryptocurrency that is showing plenty of promise. Regardless, similar to other digital coins, its price has been experiencing some volatility, though nothing compared to what Bitcoin has been going through lately.

Ripple is being used by banks for transactions, because of the low costs and the transaction speeds. It would not be beneficial for them if the price would increase that much. However I can still see, for even that price, it would worth it.

yes i think the same ripple will soon go month, recently ripple is also working with saudi arab central bank, i think this will raise the popularity of ripple and raise the price

A big improvement for ripple will certainly be a positive effect on the price of the ripple, but I think it will not be a huge increase

ripple is the ugly duck of the cryptoworld has the opposite ideology of bitcoin with a centralize project that worries most of the users of this asset. but it has really good qualities like much faster transactions with low costs because of this i think the price will rise

At the end of the day, ripple is a centralized coin.

You can only hype it up so much when it's a centralized coin and the trend is to really decentralize. And to announce a partnership with Western Union doesn't make anything better since WU is centralized as well.

It has already mooned, mostly due to hype. We're probably not going to see much higher levels for ripple again.

I dont even know wheater the news is fake or true.
If true might can lead the price to the moon. However i dont invest in ripple because i dont like it.
If anybody devide to invest, i suggest you to trade it in short term because it will be not worth for long term.

I think it's a matter of time. It can be in correction till april and after, hope we will see a new ripple heights in dollar and bitcoin. It is rather a speculative asset than a long-term one. Sure ripple can go $10 till summer.

I'm really curious to see how ripple will turn out. On one side their pr is mighty and they seem to be getting some adoption of large companies, on the other hand it doesn't make too much sense for me given the ripple specs. Let's see :)

Ripple is doing pretty good, as I saw they made some great new deals with some banks, we will see. However, I would say that is a not a cryptocurrency, more related to fiat.