Let’s Foxtrot: Interview with BitPay CEO Stephen Pair & Executive Chairman Tony Gallippi
BitPay’s CEO Stephen Pair recently announced an innovative new program that could very well change the way the internet works on several levels. The new program, called Foxtrot, was designed to give internet users the security and privacy offered by the Bitcoin blockchain technology in everything they do online. While the new system is still in the early stages, foxtrot is currently available for download and BitPay plans on using it to empower their own systems. CoinTelegraph reached out to Tony Gallippi, BitPay’s Executive Chairman for comments about the new project as well as on the....
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At the San Francisco Bitcoin Developer Meetup, Bitpay CEO Stephen Pair announced a new project called Foxtrot. A simple, secure, and decentralized routing network based on Bitcoin cryptography. Foxtrot enables easy p2p communications and has built-in mechanisms for peer discovery, creation of services addressable by public keys, and establishing encrypted connections. The Foxtrot project is open source and available on Github, with code released under the MIT license. Foxtrot will include other technologies developed by Bitpay: Insight, an open-source stack which interfaces with a full....
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BitPay took to the stage to announce an intriguing new project called Foxtrot at the San Francisco Bitcoin Developer Meetup yesterday. BitPay CEO Stephen Pair made the presentation, explaining that the open-source effort is designed as a simple, secure and decentralized communications network based on bitcoin cryptography. The company describes Foxtrot as a decentralized routing network that enables easy peer-to-peer (p2p) communications, with built-in mechanisms for peer discovery, creation of services addressable by public keys and establishing encrypted connections. Pair explained:....
Yesterday, BitPay Inc, the world's leading payment processor for Bitcoin announced an expansion to now 10 full time employees. BitPay, founded in 2011 by Tony Gallippi and Stephen Pair, has continued to expand in organizational and merchant growth. Through enabling now almost 7,000 merchants to be able to process payments in the Bitcoin currency, BitPay continues to lead the way in promoting the utility of Bitcoin. BitPay announced the newest additions to the team. Jeff Garzik, Bitcoin core-developer, will join staff to work full-time on Bitcoin and contribute his knowledge on the core....