Walgreen's announcement that it will send its workers to a private health insurance exchange to buy their own plans is a sign of the times that isn't going away.
I hope it goes without saying that Iâm incredibly pleased by the progress we have made to date - with a broad group of global FI customers. And there are powerful network effects that we have seen accelerating that momentum. - Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple. Source: Quora Session with Brad Garlinghouse, October 2017
Ripple is a payment network for financial institutions and is a competitor to systems like SWIFT. It can also be traded, but was never intended to be a payment method for buying stuff online. Bitcoin aims to become a globally adopted currency that could improve or even replace conventional money. Not everyone is a fan. Hacked