PRESS RELEASE:Berlin, Germany - May. 10 2017 Global SME marketplace lender Bitbond today announced that it received a commitment from Obotritia Capital to fund loans worth €5 million through its platform. Additionally, Obotritia invested an undisclosed amount of equity to acquire a stake in Bitbond.
There have been a lot of changes in the gaming industry this year, not limited to the new wave of virtual reality headsets that have been released, such as the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive, and innovations like No Man’s Sky, a title that was heralded as the first computer generated open universe game. However, perhaps one of the most overlooked but nevertheless exciting developments has been the industry’s wholehearted embrace of the advantages of bitcoin, which has been long overdue. Here are three different ways the gaming industry has been utilising bitcoin to improve gamers' experience.
The arrival of crypto currency was welcomed initially by tech savvy individuals and speculators. The former were counting on Bitcoin to grant more freedom and empower people, while making commerce easier. Equally keen on capitalizing on the new currency, were long-term investors. Everyone is still pretty much hooked on Bitcoin and online gambling operators have also jumped on the bandwagon. They feature on the list of accepted payment methods on an increasingly high number of casinos.
PRESS RELEASE:Berlin, Germany - Feb. 22 2017 Global SME lending platform Bitbond today announced the closing of an equity funding round of $1.2 million (€1.1 million). This round brings Bitbond’s raised equity capital to a total of $2.3 million.
Led by mobilike founder Şekip Can Gökalp, a number of business angels contributed to the round. Among them were Fyber founders Janis Zech and Andreas Bodczek as well as Kreditech co-founder & CEO Alexander Graubner-Müller.
By David Siegel
EARLY IN THE MORNING of June 17th, 2016, an unknown person or group attacked a fund called The DAO, exploited a software vulnerability, and started draining Ether, a cryptocurrency, from the main address where it was stored. This is my attempt to help journalists understand what happened and why it’s important to get the story right.
Crazy Wins on Fisticuffs and 4 Seasons awaiting for you this week as these games payouts are breaking records with up to 85.200 BTC win!
The small town is already known for its fast growing fintech operations, even being called “Crypto Valley” by some, with 15 fintech-oriented companies being located there. Apparently the town council has hopes Zug’s trend as a financial tech hub continues - having embraced the new identity with this legislative move.
The news that Craig Wright has come out as Satoshi Nakamoto is still making waves across the Bitcoin community.
But Cointelegraph’s Andrew Quenston doesn’t buy that, and claims to have evidence to the contrary.
When the community has learned that Craig Wright, an entrepreneur from Australia claims he was Satoshi Nakamoto, the legendary author of Bitcoin’s whitepaper and protocol, people started taking sides on the issue. Many believe the evidence provided by Wright. The claim was made stronger by Gavin Andersen, one of the core Bitcoin developers, who commented:
Berlin, Germany. Bitbond, the global marketplace lender for small business loans, has joined the SME Finance Forum. Through its membership Bitbond aims to exchange knowledge with other financial institutions in the SME lending community and to help foster innovation in the space.
Bitbond provides inclusive microfinance on a global scale. Over 1,200 loans with borrowers from 68 countries have been originated through the platform so far. 32% of the loan volume was originated in emerging markets like India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brazil and many others. By using bitcoin and the blockchain as a payment network, Bitbond’s users don’t need a bank account in order to get a loan or to invest through Bitbond.
Berlin, Germany. Global peer to peer bitcoin lending platform Bitbond today announced the release of its API (application programming interface) for investors and developers.
Investors and developers now have programmatical access to Bitbond services. The API lets investors customise and automate the lending process. At the same time the API gives everyone easy access to the full Bitbond loan history. Thus, the 6,000+ lenders active on Bitbond, can now implement automated investment strategies that are based on statistical analysis of historical loan data.
The API has a comprehensive documentation which can be found under this URL: https://www.bitbond.com/api/docs
“The API release reflects Bitbond’s desire to make the lives of investors on our platform as easy as possible” said Radoslav Albrecht, CEO and founder of Bitbond.
Madrid, January 12th 2016. Such as it was published online in their social networking profiles on January 8th, Crypto-Pay payment platform and OkCash cryptocurrency have agreed to set in motion a series of joint collaborations with the objective of making know the digital market. The integration of OkCash into Crypto-Pay's wallet means the first of many interesting proyects that are planned for 2016.
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Global p2p bitcoin lending platform Bitbond today announced the launch of bitcoinppi.com: the world’s first Bitcoin Purchasing Power Index.
Building upon the legendary Big Mac Index set up by The Economist in 1986, the Bitcoin Purchasing Power Index shows users how many Big Mac hamburgers they can buy with one bitcoin. bitcoinppi provides a global average index as well as local indices by country.
Canada is becoming a forerunner in the adoption of Bitcoin. One prominent university in Canada's British Columbia area, SFU, has announced that it will install Bitcoin ATMs to its Bookstore locations.
This is inline with SFU's initiative to facilitate its students in buying books. A Canada based operator, BitSent, will provide the ATMs.
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