Sentences with phrase «by digital currency startup»

Boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. is promoting the scheduled initial coin offering (ICO) by digital currency startup Centra on September 19, 2017.

Circle's Series A is one of the largest — if not the largest — amounts of funding secured so far by a digital currency startup.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission shut down an effort by restaurant review startup Munchee to raise capital via digital currency, a.k.a. an initial coin offering, saying the deal constitutes the unregistered sale of securities.

Investing in a digital currency is extremely high - risk — more so than traditional startup investing — but is motivated largely by the explosive growth in the value of bitcoins, each of which is now worth around $ 4,000 at the time of publication.

Ben Bernanke, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, will be the keynote speaker at a blockchain and banking conference in October hosted by Ripple, the startup behind the fourth largest digital currency.

In an effort to bypass the rules and costs associated with getting listed on an exchange, many startups now are opting to raise funds by issuing their own digital currency based on blockchain technology.

It may be early days in Canada for fintechs, a catchphrase for new innovative financial technology startups, and major technology companies that are challenging traditional financial institutions on their turf by offering cheaper and easier - to - use Internet - or smartphone - based services such as payment apps or peer - to - peer lending or digital currencies, but Canada's Big Six banks are paying heed even though they appear to be on solid ground.

Draper is well known for being very optimistic about the future of cryptocurrencies by investing in many digital currency startups, and purchasing $ 20M worth of bitcoin in the 2014 Silk Road government auction.

Ben Bernanke, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, will be the keynote speaker at a blockchain and banking conference in October hosted by Ripple, the startup behind the fourth largest digital currency.

Ledger, a security startup for blockchain and cryptocurrencies, known for its bitcoin hardware wallets has today announced the closing of a $ 7 million series A funding led by MAIF Avenir, with the participation of Xange, Wicklow Capital, GDTRE, Libertus Capital, Digital Currency Group, The Whittemore Collection, Kima Ventures, BHB Network and Nicolas Pinto.

Blockchain startup Tierion has raised a $ 1 million seed round led by Blockchain Capital and Fenbushi Capital, with participation from Digital Currency Group.

The new funding follows moves by Australian regulators to improve conditions for startups working with digital currencies, especially a decision earlier this year to finally remove a much - maligned «double tax» on bitcoin purchases.

The city has become a major hub for digital currency and blockchain startups, buoyed by a proactive government that has sought to attract more startups to Switzerland.

Supporting the conclusions above is that many formerly bitcoin - first startups are signaling support for alternative digital currencies (by offering services to their blockchains).

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Mediachain has joined the likes of OpenBazaar and Blockstack and joined the community of Blockchain startups backed by some of the most powerful venture capitalists in Silicon Valley including Union Square Venture, Andreessen Horowitz, and RRE Ventures — as well as Digital Currency Group, LDV Capital, Alexis Ohanian, William Mougayar, Kanyi Maqubela, David Lee, Mathieu Drouin and Brian Message.

ICOs allow new startups and blockchain projects to fund themselves by raising money in the form of digital currency.

Blockchain startups Ripple and R3 are going to court to resolve a dispute over the unilateral termination by Ripple of an options contract on its XRP digital currency unit held by R3.

Two majors factors which drove startups, exchanges and businesses dealing with Bitcoin and other digital currencies in Australia away from the country where the termination of banking services by leading Australian banks due to their anti-competitive nature and the double taxation of Bitcoin trading by the Australian government.

Markets are also on edge over fears that bitcoin prices may have been artificially inflated by digital currency exchange Bitfinex, which was recently subpoenaed by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) along with Tether, a crypto startup with the same executives.

Here, they have been used mostly by blockchain startups as a means to fund projects or business ideas by issuing digital «tokens» to subscribers who pay using mechanisms including prominent cryptocurrencies — such as bitcoin or ether — or through fiat currency in order to acquire proprietary interests in the business or project.