CB Insights

MARCH 23, 2017

Bitcoin and blockchain investors may be signaling caution. While the number of total deals grew from 143 in 2014 to 161 … Continued. Check out even more content at Future of Fintech 2017. Use code “FoFInsights” to get $1000 off your ticket.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2017

While bitcoin has continued to gain recognition as a store of value—with 2016 seeing upticks in bitcoin demand, especially amidst political unrest—many investors and industry leaders have also made investments aimed at developing bitcoin’s underlying technology, blockchain. At the most basic level, … Continued.

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MARCH 31, 2017

This past week proved once again that it’s tough to be a bitcoin fan. In another blow to bitcoin legitimacy, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has denied the second bitcoin-based ETF bid up for consideration in the month of March — the Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.’s Well, as long-term as bitcoin value can be.

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MARCH 7, 2019

In other news, blockchain security company CipherTrace revealed details of the first Canadian court case to use a bitcoin expert witness. As a result, the Ontario Attorney General is seeking to confiscate 288 bitcoins. “As It also wants to work on an electronic overhaul in time for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.

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APRIL 22, 2024

Technology The decentralised network connected through a network of computers or nodes underlies blockchain technology, synonymous with cryptocurrencies. Blockchain protocols are the guidelines or rulebooks that determine how a blockchain works. Web1 was read-only, Web2 is read-write, and Web3 will be read-write-own.

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JANUARY 23, 2018

Four years after Stripe began accepting bitcoin, the payments platform has decided to end support for the popular cryptocurrency. The company said bitcoin’s volatility and lengthy transaction times led to its decision, TechCrunch reported. Since then, the value of bitcoin has skyrocketed, reaching nearly $20,000 in 2017.

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

Tencent’s WeBank , which is a digital bank in China that provides loans to individuals and small businesses, will be the technical infrastructure provider for China’s national blockchain network, according to a report by Coindesk. Following that, it expanded into blockchain services.

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CB Insights

MARCH 29, 2018

Everyone’s talking about blockchain technology — from financial services firms like Nasdaq, to payment processors like MasterCard, to shippers like FedEx. Some companies are even pivoting away from their core products to adopt new blockchain strategies , seeing notable stock price jumps in the process. ” — CEO Charles W.

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

Customers can now instantly convert between bitcoin and ethereum, ethereum classic, litecoin, 0x, or bitcoin cash (BCH) on both Coinbase.com and in the company’s iOS and Android apps. Yet Medici has been burning cash since its lauch in 2014. We think we’ve got cold fusion on the blockchain side.”. million shares.

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

Tencent’s WeBank , which is a digital bank in China that provides loans to individuals and small businesses, will be the technical infrastructure provider for China’s national blockchain network, according to a report by Coindesk. Following that, it expanded into blockchain services.

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MARCH 3, 2017

Bitcoin’s market cap is currently well over $20 billion as value rose well over $200 in the past two weeks. At the time of writing, bitcoin was worth $1,270.86, up 3.32 As bitcoin rose, TechCrunch noted that the value of 1 BTC had actually surpassed the value of an ounce of gold — the go-to alternative asset.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The Chinese eCommerce retailer is working with both the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) for the joint lab, which will look into efficiency issues and scalability when it comes to the blockchain.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Marshals Service is auctioning roughly $40 million in bitcoin, CoinDesk reported on Monday (Feb. The auction of 4,040 confiscated bitcoin — worth $37.7 Investor Tim Draper won nearly 30,000 bitcoin across 10 auction blocks. . million at press time — is for people who are registered to bid by Feb. This is the first U.S.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

JPMorgan Chase CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon is not a huge fan of bitcoin and offered a comment on the cryptocurrency’s 10th anniversary, Financial News reported. MarketWatch said “the gist of his response” was “I didn’t want to be the spokesman against bitcoin. ” The executive has long been a skeptic of bitcoin.

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MAY 7, 2020

The company was started in 2014 and has 28 staffers and over 3,500 locations throughout 27 states. In other news, digital currency financial services app Abra has notched a $5 million investment from the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) that comes before its integration with the Stellar blockchain, CoinDesk reported.

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CB Insights

APRIL 18, 2019

China is a key player in the development of blockchain technology, and home to some of the world’s largest and most influential companies in the space. GET the 47-page blockchain TRENDS report. Download the free report to learn about the biggest emerging trends in blockchain and strategies to watch for 2019.

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CB Insights

APRIL 8, 2016

After no involvement in the five largest blockchain and bitcoin deals in 2013 and 2014, corporate and strategic investors including Goldman Sachs, Visa, Cisco, and AXA among others have dominated the largest blockchain deals since the start of 2015, according … Continued.

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

Overstock.com is one of the most significant investors in the blockchain technology on which digital coins are based. The site accepts bitcoin as a form of payment and ranks among Google, Citi and Goldman Sachs as some of the major players in the cryptocurrency space. Medici reported a loss of $3.3

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

Plenty of industries and companies are eyeing blockchain – the technology that enables cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin – but when it comes to corporate investors, SBI, Google, Overstock.com, Citi and Goldman Sachs are standing out from the pack.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Goldman Sachs has decided to drop out of the R3 CEV blockchain group, letting its membership lapse as of Oct. According to the report, a Goldman Sachs spokeswoman confirmed the membership lapse but that Goldman Sachs plans to continue to work with blockchain technology. 31, reported The Wall Street Journal.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

Milan, Italy was the host of a formal bitcoin conference to address scaling and a protest conference that addressed, well, everything that the formal conference didn’t. Scaling of bitcoin is a thorny issue and one that caused some dissension at the Scaling Bitcoin conference that took place on October 8 and 9.

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MAY 27, 2016

Gox bitcoin drama got a little more dramatic this week. Gox is the now-defunct bitcoin exchange that shuttered in February 2014 after a mysterious “glitch” caused $500 million worth of bitcoin to go missing. Those bitcoin – or at least most of them — have remained missing ever since. Gox bitcoin.

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JANUARY 22, 2022

Why should sellers look for bitcoin payment gateways? Cryptocurrencies, along with bitcoin, functionalize too long to ignore them. Statista shares that bitcoin’s market capitalization formed 53% of the total cryptocurrencies’ market cap in 2019. It’s by searching for the bitcoin merchant services. The answer is simple.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

Bitcoin is ending the year on a good note, with the total value of bitcoin in circulation reaching more than $14 billion on Thursday (Dec. According to a report , the value of bitcoin increased 5 percent alone on Thursday, reaching its highest levels in three years and more than doubling in price.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

The others, however, are working with more cutting-edge tech, including bitcoin and artificial intelligence (AI), and just so happened to see the largest funding rounds of the week. based BitPay works with financial institutions, corporations and consumers to facilitate payment acceptance and initiation using bitcoin.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

The country’s GDP was approximately $880 billion in 2014. The Blockchain Boom. Earlier this year, the Dutch government announced plans to open a new campus devoted entirely to attracting banks and financial institutions through the development of blockchain. The Netherlands is estimated to have a population of 17 million.

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MARCH 23, 2016

The whispers have grown to loud chatter when it comes to blockchain technology and the impact it might have on the financial services sector. The latest research from PwC found that banks are no longer taking blockchain technology as an easily ignored fad. For FIs, it’s better to be friend instead of foe with the disruptor.

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JULY 29, 2016

More importantly, cash is actually the preferred currency of illegal transactions and terrorist financing; so while the effect of this proposal may not do much for terrorism or money laundering, it is likely to increase the friction associated with bitcoin transactions. Is The Bank of Japan Helping Bitcoin ?

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

million from Fusion Protocol , a blockchain-powered platform for exchanging “stablecoins.” gave up on its plans for a Bitcoin ETF earlier this month, leaving only two contenders looking for approval from the U.S. which had two Bitcoin ETF proposals denied. Criminals have stolen around $6.4 million ERC20 FSN tokens.

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JANUARY 6, 2017

This week’s Bitcoin Tracker is like a game of good news, bad news. Whoever “they” are, they’re not likely to be part of the crowd who were hoping that bitcoin’s $1,000 break would last longer than it did. Bitcoin was riding high until yesterday (Jan. 5, 2017, bitcoin was worth $1,153.02. At 8:00 a.m. UTC on Jan.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

A cryptocurrency mining market in Slovenia, which lost millions in bitcoin in a Wednesday (Dec. 7), halting its work as it tried to piece together just how it was hacked and how much bitcoin went missing. Early estimates came in around 47,000 bitcoins, but the number has since risen.

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CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2018

When it comes to blockchain technology, there’s a lot of hype. Now some public companies are pivoting away from their core products — be that cameras, diagnostic machinery, or even iced tea — to adopt new blockchain strategies. Live briefing: BLOCKCHAIN TRENDS IN 2018. “I valued my IPO pricing at $5.”

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CB Insights

JANUARY 31, 2018

Blockchain not a focus: Although cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin made headlines in 2017, the year only saw one new blockchain investment by this cohort: Citi’s investment in a small $2M Series A to Axoni. The blockchain company worked with Citi and JP Morgan on a successful test of its technology for credit-default swaps.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Blockchain has the potential to disrupt nearly every industry. Read our What Is Blockchain explainer for more.). Read our What Is Blockchain explainer for more.). But the value of most cryptocurrencies, especially bitcoin, fluctuates on a daily basis. Get the full report. First name. Company name. Phone number.

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JUNE 22, 2018

And it just so happens that “21” represents the maximum number of bitcoins in millions. He (or she … or groups of people), invented bitcoin and published a paper about it in 2008. But Clear came out to publicly deny being bitcoin’s inventor in 2013. ” What do we know about Nakamoto?

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JUNE 18, 2019

The New Rails — The Libra Blockchain. The Libra ecosystem consists of new rails, the Libra Blockchain, built by Facebook engineers, and the introduction of a new programming language, Move, designed to make it more efficient and more secure for developers to create new payments and financial services applications that run on top of it.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Founded in 2014, Peersafe provides infrastructure for blockchain-based platforms across China, including the government. CoinDesk reported that China’s military is looking into using blockchain technologies to do everything from securing classified information and communications to studying military training performances.

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