CRYPTO INSIDER: Ripple is on a tear
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Ripple's XRP cryptocurrency is up another 9% Friday, the day after the company announced a partnership with Santander to power a new payment app from the Spanish bank.
Here are the current crypto prices:
What's happening:
- $1.6 billion bitcoin exchange Coinbase just acquired a smaller competitor
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- The crypto world is angry that Deepak Chopra is scheduled to speak at a prominent ethereum conference
- XRP is "absolutely not" a security, Ripple's chief market strategist says
- Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller told CNBC that the bitcoin craze is more psychological than economic
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- Paying taxes on bitcoin isn't nearly as hard as it sounds
- How to buy Ripple's XRP cryptocurrency
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- You can track the price of nearly two-dozen cryptocurrencies here
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