Sentences with phrase «led by digital currency»

The bitcoin processing integration was provided by Latin American - focused bitcoin exchange provider Bitso, which recently raised an undisclosed seed round led by Digital Currency Group and launched a payment processing service, BitsoPagos.

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Blockchain Capital led the round, and was joined by investors including SV Angel, Digital Currency Group, Reciprocal Ventures, Collaborative Fund, Kindred Ventures, Kokopelli Capital, Notation Capital, Sparkland Capital, and V1.VC.

Moro said Hong Kong - based Xapo is currently the leading custodian in the digital currency world, but added that Xapo is limited by the fact it only holds bitcoin and not Ethereum or many other newer crypto currencies.

Cryptocurrency ripple is leading the top digital currencies by market cap as the worst performer as the first quarter comes to a close.

BCH, considered as the true remaining Bitcoin as intended by the Satoshi Nakamoto white paper, currently leads the race among digital currencies wishing to become a true competitor against both PayPal and Visa for making payments.

Furthermore, his company's heavy investment into their own virtual currency could lead to similar approaches by companies looking to transform digital commerce.

Writing in an op - ed published by Chinese - language business news outlet Yicai, Yao Qian — who leads the People's Bank of China (PBoC) digital currency research institute — argued that is impossible to exercise decentralized, informal blockchain governance on a large scale.

Six of the world's premier lenders — Barclays, Credit Suisse, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, HSBC, MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) and State Street — have recently joined a project led by Swiss banking giant UBS — in addition to existing members Deutsche Bank, Banco Santander, Bank of New York Mellon and NEX — with the goal of creating the utility settlement coin, a digital currency that will primarily be used to quickly clear and settle financial transactions using blockchain.

Every project is led by a project leader who will continue to create ideas until digital currencies are much more well - known and widely used than they currently are today.

Its funding round last year was led by Aleph, Spark Capital and the Digital Currency Group, along with ex-Reuters CEO Tom Glocer.

There has been some extraordinary language used by leading central bankers concerning digital currencies recently.

The University of Nicosia (UNIC) is, by most measures, the leading university globally in the digital currency and blockchain field.

CoinTracking.com is the leading real - time portfolio tracker, trade analyzer and tax - reporting tool for digital currency - powered by historical and current data for over 5,258 existing currencies.

Speaking further, Sahil said, «We are proud to be backed by people like Roger Ver (who has single handedly funded the seed rounds for the entire first generation of Bitcoin businesses), Amit Bhardwaj (who is leading the march for Bitcoin Adoption in India), Michael Terpin (he co-founded BitAngels, the first angel network for investments in bitcoin / digital currency companies) and more Bitcoin Pioneers.

Overseen by Bitcoin Core lead maintainer Wladimir van der Laan, this latest major release was developed by nearly 100 contributors over a six - month period, with major contributions through Chaincode Labs, Blockstream and MIT's Digital Currency Initiative.Bitcoin Core 0.15.0 offers significant performance and usability improvements over previous versions of the software implementation.

The governor named a close lieutenant, Ben Lawsky, to be an omnibus regulator, but he has won attention not for racking up scalps in the New York - based financial sector but by grabbing billions through sanctions on foreign banks, and leading the discussion about policy adjustments demanded by the rise of digital currencies like BitCoin.

The new series follows The Hobbit leading man Martin Freeman as an FBI agent tracking the growth of a digital currency company founded by The OC star Adam Brody, Otmara Marrero (Graceland) and Edi Gathegi (X-Men: First Class).

This lead to the release of «Digital Currency Guidelines» by the ATO in December of last year.

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.

Led by Wicklow Capital with the help of Digital Currency Group, Sierra Ventures, Clocktower Ventures and ThirdStream Partners, the round will be used to build out Omniex's suite of tools for buying and selling bitcoin, ether and any other crypto asset deemed a commodity.

BCH, considered as the true remaining Bitcoin as intended by the Satoshi Nakamoto white paper, currently leads the race among digital currencies wishing to become a true competitor against both PayPal and Visa for making payments.

The round was led by Blockchain Capital and also included Batshit Crazy Ventures, Collaborative Fund, Digital Currency Group, Kindred Ventures, Kokopelli Capital, Notation Capital, Reciprocal Ventures, Sparkland Capital, SV Angel and V1.VC.

Disclosure: CoinDesk is a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which is led by CEO and founder Barry Silbert.

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

The investment round was led by Blockchain Capital, Fenbushi Capital, and the Digital Currency Group.

The round is led by Bitmain Technology, the world's largest bitcoin hardware mining producer, Coinsilium, a leading Blockchain investment firm based in London and Digital Currency Group, the prolific investor from New York,

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro looked to the world of digital currency to circumvent U.S. - led financial sanctions, announcing on Sunday the launch of the «petro» backed by oil reserves to shore up a collapsed economy.

A recent study conducted by leading bitcoin wallet provider Luno reveals a great deal of faith in the future of the digital currency in Nigeria.

However, these holdings are dwarfed by the leading digital currency exchange Coinbase, Inc., which owns 13 US patents.

Asus» new motherboard reflects the desire by leading hardware manufacturers to develop products that meet the demands of digital currency miners.

Why it matters: Segwit2x was first proposed by Barry Silbert - led Digital Currency Group as a follow up solution to the Hong Kong agreement.

The round was led by bitcoin hardware mining producer, Bitmain Technology, which was supported by Digital Currency Group (DCG), seed investor from New York, and Coinsilium, blockchain investment firm.

Now the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire says the country is creating a working group led by the former BOF deputy governor that will study digital currencies while also proposing regulatory standards.

Leading Bitcoin media and events company CoinDesk has been acquired by Barry Silbert's Digital Currency Group.

ShapeShift AG, an instant exchange for Bitcoin digital currency and other blockchain assets, announced on Tuesday it secured $ 10.4 million Series A funding round, which was led by Berlin - based Earlybird with participants from Lakestar, Access Venture Partners, Pantera Capital, and Blockchain Capital.

The leading digital currency rose by more than $ 1,000 over the three - day period while most other cryptocurrencies were relatively flat.

Other news headlines... Central banks explore blockchain to create digital currencies with Russia, China, UK, Australia leading the pack; China's Miners» Conference, a mostly promotional event organized by major miner Bitmain; why is blockchain gaining popularity; Switzerland - based blockchain content distribution network DECENT has just launched its web application prototype; how the blockchain will become the next disruptive force in the media and the hype surrounding Zcash faded.

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.

Initially, SegWit2x was proposed by Barry Silbert - led Digital Currency Group as a follow up solution to the Hong Kong agreement; to increase the Bitcoin block size by 2 MB and in return, activate the Bitcoin Core development team's scaling and transaction malleability solution Segregated Witness (SegWit2x).

Led by Wicklow Capital with the help of Digital Currency Group, Sierra

According to a new article by CNBC, the South Korean prime minister Lee Nak - Yeon is the latest to take up the anti-Bitcoin mantle, recently stated in a cabinet meeting that the digital currency could lead children to illegal activities like drug trading.

Last year, six of the world's largest banks (Barclays, Credit Suisse, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, HSBC, Mitsubishi UFJ and State Street) joined a project led by UBS to create their own digital currency: a «Utility Settlement Coin» (USC) to streamline payment mechanisms and make it easier in the future for central banks to use crypto - currencies.