One of Skype's employees shared the proposal with the other members of the team. Nevertheless, he emphasizes the fact that Skype is a division of Microsoft and that the decision to integrate cryptocurrencies must be made at the company level, which may take some time.
Currently, the Ripple community is trying to collect as many votes as possible from the Skype UserVoice website, where users can offer their ideas to improve the service. At the time of writing this article, more than 1,950 people are already in favor of introducing cryptocurrency payments (XRP and others).
If you are interested in this integration, you can vote on this site: Uservoice
In recent times, we have been hearing about the possibility of adopting Ripple as the main currency for cross-border payments: Western Union said in February that they were testing Ripple's payment solutions.
According to financial analysts, for this to happen, there needs to be wide dissemination, including acceptance as a means of payment by one of the large corporations. Ripple is working on this today, making cryptocurrency a solution for micropayments. For example, by allowing its use on Twitter, Reddit, Gmail, and Discord via the XRPTipBot.
Last year, Reuters published a report that cryptocurrency companies trade, buy, sell and lend cryptocurrency via Skype most often, as it is an ideal free international platform. for traders.
In a similar context, it was recently reported that TCS, a large IT company, had introduced a new method of connecting banks and financial institutions to Ripple. TCS announced that its Quarn blockchain now works with RippleNet. The solution enables banks / payment systems to connect to new payment infrastructures based on the DLT for the processing of cross-border credit transfers.
Experts say the payments market is currently overflowing with major banks, processing companies and now blockchain startups competing for primacy in this market. Ripple enjoys significant recognition and unique growth opportunities in this market through partnerships with leading financial institutions around the world.
