Interview with Shapeshift.io CEO Beorn Gonthier
Shapeshift.io is an exchange that introduced a new exchange solution for Cryptocurrencies. The exchange allows you to instantly exchange cryptocurrencies directly between them. ShapeShift introduced the easiest way to buy or sell Altcoins offering instant conversion between coins. By offering the most private and most convenient way to swap digital currencies, ShapeShift’s aims to be the leading exchange services provider within the crypto exchange ecosystem. The exchange introduced an innovative and useful service that doesn’t require users to have an account. This enables trading between....
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Cryptocurrency exchange platform ShapeShift.io recently added NXT - a 100% POS cryptocurrency with a market cap of around $17 million. Offering users the ease of converting between multitudes of cryptocurrencies without requiring an account, ShapeShift is now attributing the same liquidity to NXT - a step which brings this digital currency a little towards user and merchant adoption. Over time, NXT developers have offered industry with a range of new and innovative features, the 'Monetary System' being one among them. ShapeShift, who itself is considered very selective when it comes to....
Instant bitcoin and altcoin exchange ShapeShift has received $525,000 in seed funding from investors Barry Silbert and Roger Ver. The Swiss-based platform, which lets users swap between 25 digital currencies and tokens, differs from traditional exchanges in that it operates without user accounts and requires no form of registration. Silbert, who invested as part of the Digital Currency Group, told CoinDesk: "ShapeShift has reinvented the altcoin market and enables the fastest, most efficient and least risky way for people to exchange different digital currencies and tokens." As part of the....
ShapeShift releases the Shifty Button, a tool allowing online merchants to start accepting payments in 11 different cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and leading altcoins Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Darkcoin. The Shifty Button is a free and simple HTML code, which can be placed into any payment page. When added to a website, users are then given the ability to deposit any of the altcoins supported by ShapeShift's exchange, including Litecoin, Peercoin, Dogecoin, Darkcoin, Namecoin, Feathercoin, Blackcoin, BitcoinDark, Quark, and Nubits. Altcoins are then automatically converted into bitcoins....
During the Miami Bitcoin Conference 2015, Bitcoinist was able to conduct several interviews and make new connections which will be posted for your reading pleasure at a later time. One of the contacts we met was Emily, a representative from Shapeshift. In this interview, we discussed what ShapeShift does and briefly talked the Shifty Button, which allows website owners to accept altcoins that are automatically exchanged into Bitcoin. For people that don’t know, what is Shapeshift and how does it work? ShapeShift is an instant exchange for cryptocurrency. It is different from a normal....
Recently, popular cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift was hacked twice. The first time, an employee was behind the theft. Then, the employee, “Bob,” sold information to a second hacker, who stole from ShapeShift again. After publishing a play-by-play article on Bitcoin.com, CEO Erik Voorhees sat down with us to talk about what his company is doing in the....