- Ripple will provide investments and grants to companies, using digital asset XRP and XRP Ledger in their operating activities. - Economist Alex de Vries published a research, estimating the current total energy consumption for bitcoin mining and making a forecast for the future. - Due to Bitcoin Cash hard fork the block size increased from 8MB to 32MB. - MUFG Bank plans to … [Read more...] about Crypto news in brief (May 20, 2018): Ripple, Bitcoin Cash hard fork, Bitcoin mining, MUFG Bank