CNET's Halsey Minor on Bankruptcy, Financial Disruption and His 'Reserve Bank' for Bitcoin
Halsey Minor has long experience betting on, and profiting from, the next big thing. In the 1990s he started CNET, took it public, then sold it to CBS for $1.8bn. He became a technology investor, placing bets on enterprise software behemoth Salesforce.com and telephony firm Grand Central, which eventually became Google Voice. When the financial crisis of 2008 hit, Minor was in the thick of it. He fell off the radar as he suffered the consequences of recalled loans and acute depression, as he told Bloomberg Businessweek. Then he discovered cryptocurrencies, which he believes are the....
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The transparent Bitcoin reserve, Bitreserve, will leave beta and become available to the public later this month. Halsey Minor is the tech entrepreneur that founded CNET in 1993. In 2008, he sold that company to CBS for $1.8 billion and became an investor. Minor was the largest financial backer of Salesforce.com and Grand Central. Forbes recognized the former as one of America's most innovative companies. The latter went on to become Google Voice. Minor's eye for innovation and ability to spot opportunity created jobs, produced wealth, and made him a very wealthy man. But when the....
On May 4, The Times of India reported that Halsey Minor, the multi-millionaire entrepreneur and founder/CEO of BitReserve, engaged a meeting with the local regulators for the company's future plans to launch its services there. "After the U. S., U. K. and China, we want to now set up operations in India, and we are talking to regulators and potential partners on a range of our Internet-based finance offerings," Minor told Times of India. The aim of the launch in India is to provide users with "direct control of their money," as Minor plans to offer BitReserve as a "financial inclusion....
Following the pre-announcement of last week, Bitreserve is now open for business with real-time transparency data. Also read: Bitcoin Reserve "BitReserve" Banks To Open its Vaults Soon. Bitreserve Founder and CEO Halsey Minor says: "Today we are thrilled to announce we have fully launched Bitreserve and are now accessible to the public." Halsey Minor also founded CNET in 1993. In 2008, he sold that company to CBS for $1.8 billion and became an investor. Bitreserve is a next-generation financial service, which shields users from bitcoin volatility by enabling them to hold Bitcoin as the....
Bitreserve will be opening its new bank-like wallet and payments platform to some beta users next week. The brainchild of Halsey Minor, who also founded CNET, Bitreserve is a low-cost bitcoin and fiat currency payments platform, aimed at consumers, where holdings in bitcoin can easily be exchanged and held in one of several fiat currencies. The service will allow fiat-to-fiat transfers at zero cost between individual members, and a forthcoming API is expected to be integrated with payment processors. To boost user confidence, Minor says transparency has been made a priority, with....
Virtual reality and 3-D design content creation platform developed by technology entrepreneur and media outlet CNET founder Halsey Minor has started the pre-sale of its in-game cryptocurrency "voxels." The pre-sale of voxels is a part of the platform's upcoming launch of a new marketplace for VR assets, animations and games in the first quarter of 2016. Introduced at a virtual reality forum and conference Oculus Connect, the Voxelus platform has processed more than 20,000 downloads of its Creator software despite the relatively small market that the company is targeting. The rising....