Today we have some really good news revolving around the XRP ecosystem and this one is a big one. First off I would like to give credit to valued XRP community member @XRPCenter for making this information available to us and clearly explaining whats going on with Line and XRP.

September 17, 2019.@BITMAX_JP, virtual currency trading service that can be accessed from the "Line Wallet" tab on @LINEjp_official (used by more than 81M people monthly in Japan) launched services today, including support for #XRP.

https://t.co/zu0r5YexrM — XRP Research Center (@XrpCenter) September 17, 2019

Line is a free communications app that is based in Japan and users can exchange texts, images, video and audio, and conduct free VoIP conversations and video conferences. So people can exchange information seamlessly.

This application is confirmed to have more than 81 million monthly users, so this platform has major reach over Japan’s population, considering the fact that Japan has a population of 126.8 million it is fair to say that the majority of Japan citizens use the Line app.

So now Line is launching BITMAX which supports a couple of cryptocurrencies and one of them is XRP.

So starting today, Line users can directly access BITMAX from within the Line app in the “Line Wallet” tab. Essentially, 64% of Japan’s population now has direct access to a cryptocurrency trading platform through the Line app. This is a huge development and its no doubt that Japan is one of the most developed countries when it comes to blockchain and cryptocurrency applications.

81 Million users now have direct access to purchase XRP.