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Should You Forget Bitcoin and Buy XRP Instead?

The Motley Fool

So should growth-oriented investors shift from Bitcoin and buy XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) on the chance that it might take off? Ripple actually pre-mined its entire supply of 100 billion tokens before its launch in 2013, and it locked up more than half of those tokens in escrow accounts across its blockchain. To make matters worse, the U.S.

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It May Be a Wild Ride, but This Cryptocurrency Could Generate Serious Wealth

The Motley Fool

XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) , the digital currency of the Ripple blockchain, has taken its investors on a wild ride since its market debut in 2013. It's mainly used to route real-time payments, remittance transfers, and currency exchange transactions. It started trading at $0.0058893, soared to an all-time high of $3.84 million today.

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Prediction: These 3 Phenomenal Cryptocurrencies Are Set to Soar

The Motley Fool

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) officially recognizes as a commodity instead of a security. That classification supported the approvals of the first Bitcoin spot price exchange-traded funds ( ETFs ) this January. That's why Bitcoin is still the only cryptocurrency the U.S.