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Today in crypto, Ripple reportedly made a $5 billion bid to acquire Circle, an elderly US citizen was targeted in a $330 million Bitcoin social engineering scam, and a court ruled that Tornado Cash cannot be sanctioned again.
Blockchain payments firm Ripple has reportedly bid up to $5 billion in an effort to acquire stablecoin issuer Circle, but the offer was rejected.
According to an April 30 Bloomberg report, Ripple put in a bid of $4 billion to $5 billion as part of an attempted takeover of Circle, which was rejected as being too low. Ripple hasn’t considered whether to make another bid to purchase the stablecoin issuer.
