Blockchain. Crypto. It's happening to investments, currency, food trucks. Yes, payments are possible

with crypto now. But it's not just happening to tortilla chips. Also, microchips. You can trade

tokenized real world and digital assets. So it's happening to assets, trading, industries,

economies, and pretty much everything else. And it's happening with Ripple.

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