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What Happened: The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) shares spiked Friday afternoon as traders circulated a report that the company was in talks with Ripple to adopt its XRP...

Thanks to one digital currency's surge, the co-founder and executive chairman of Ripple is now one of the five richest people in America.

BITCOIN is facing serious competition from Ripple with banks around the world. "We have over 100 banks working with Ripple today around the world" according to the company’s CEO Brad Garlinghouse.

Bitcoin-mania is running mild baby, because despite being the talk of the town when it came to cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin wasn't the best performing digital currency for 2017. In fact, its 1,000 percent rise wasn't even enough to put it among the 1

Founders Fund, the venture-capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, has bought large sums of bitcoin that are now worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Bitcoin is still green, but other coins are even greener.

Thursday's big gain was powered by positive news out of Japan, where Ripple started up a new partnership with a consortium of credit card companies to get the digital currency into the hands and wallets of regular consumers. Ripple was founded as a blockchain-based money transfer service, giving

At least one of Wall Streets biggest firms is growing more comfortable with cryptocurrencies.

Investors in bitcoin and other virtual currencies would lose a lucrative tax break under the Republican tax bill thats on its way to President Donald Trumps desk.

Coinbase is one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, so when it adds a new coin to its portfolio investors take notice. It is not uncommon for the price to see a big jump as a result: Litecoin, for instance, gained over 50 percent followi

European Union states and legislators agreed on Friday on stricter rules to prevent money laundering and terrorism financing on exchange platforms for bitcoin and other virtual currencies, the EU said in a statement.

Branching out from bitcoin

You've probably heard the hype about bitcoin or ethereum, but what about cryptocurrencies like neo, dash or ripple?

Ripple revealed that it plans to create 55 smart contracts that will hold 1 billion XRP each. Every month, one of these contracts will expire, making the associated digital tokens available for use.

MtGox creditors who want to benefit from bitcoin's rise in value have asked a Japanese court to pull the exchange out of bankruptcy.

Following some speculation from the cryptocurrency community, IOTA has come out to clarify that it currently has no formal partnership with Microsoft, despite its announcement from earlier in November. This means that the Redmond giant has not yet contrib

TOKYO -- Banks in Japan and South Korea begin tests Friday of blockchain technology from U.S. developer Ripple, aiming to achieve same-day internation

South Korea's government has called an emergency meeting to discuss the trading of cryptocurrencies, and measures on the market will be announced on Friday, a central bank official said on Wednesday.

That's right: as of this moment it is official that bitcoin is now the biggest bubble in history, having surpassed the Tulip Mania of 1634-1637.

American Express (Amex) sent waves through the financial and payment sector this past Thursday partnering up with Ripple, the cross border payment platform that seems to be seeping into every payment channel now. Ripple has signed on over 100 financial institutions to the RippleNet including: Bank