the European Central Bank, aka the ECB, just announced something absolutely crazy. And if you hold XRP, or even if you're following Ripple, this is something that you need to be paying attention to right now. And I'm going to be addressing in this video everything happening around Europe for Ripple and XRP on why exactly this announcement from the ECB is so important for both Ripple and XRP. So let's first start off start off with going back to December because you know the European Central Bank has been re ...

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