ZeroBlock and beyond: An Interview with Dan Held
Dan Held is a pioneering third party Bitcoin innovator. His co-founding of ZeroBlock, a leading app fast becoming a household name in the community, led to the Blockchain.info where he is now Director of Product. We caught up with Dan to ask about how things are going in the new incarnation of ZeroBlock and get his opinion on the Bitcoin market today, as well as some sneak peeks into the future. CoinTelegraph: Can you tell us what's next for ZeroBlock in its new guise as Blockchain.info's financial data portal? Dan Held: ZeroBlock's product roadmap has exciting milestones coming up in the....
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Earlier this week, ZeroBlock announced that their Bitcoin App is now available on Android devices. The ZeroBlock App has already been a success for iOS devices. As the price of Bitcoin continues to rise, individuals can now find real time market data and news on iOS and Android devices. ZeroBlock displays real time price quotes from BitStamp, Mt. Gox, Btc-e, btcchina, and Coinbase. ZeroBlock was founded by Dan Held and Kevin Johnson in May 2013 and has become the highest rated and most reviewed Bitcoin-related app in the Apple app store. ZeroBlock issued the following press release....
Digital news, information and data aggregator ZeroBlock has arrived on the Android mobile platform. The company's tagline promises "An intuitive design for an intuitive currency". ZeroBlock's founders Dan Held and Kevin Johnson have witnessed a recent surge of interest in bitcoin, so it made sense for them to expand to Android. Held told CoinDesk: "With the price of BTC moving so rapidly, we wanted to get our product to market ASAP." Although the company has an app in the Apple iOS Store already, Android gives ZeroBlock access to many new users who may be interested in bitcoin information....
If you're looking for a Bloomberg Terminal-esqe means to trade your bitcoin, you might have previously heard of the ZeroBlock Trading Platform. This platform came about earlier this year following Blockchain's acquisition of RTBTC, and was quickly rebranded in with the ZeroBlock name (a company Blockchain also acquired in the past). But it wasn't free. ZeroBlock - a prominent information hub in the bitcoin community - originally launched the product as a subscription service. Individuals who were interested in using it could give it a try for a day before deciding whether or not it was....
Dan Held, the former Blockchain.info Product Manager and Co-Founder of ZeroBlock, is joining ChangeTip as their new VP of Product. ChangeTip is currently on a hiring spree after receiving a seed round of $3.5 million in funding. ChangeTip's seed round was led by Pantera Capital but also included big names such as 500 Startups, Bold Start Ventures, and CryptoCurrency Partners. ChangeTip previously had an angel round of $750,000. Also read: Is ChangeTip the Viral Bitcoin Killer App? From ZeroBlock to Blockchain.info to ChangeTip. Dan Held first entered the Bitcoin industry when starting....
ZeroBlock Trading Platform Adds BTC-e. ZeroBlock's trading platform "will allow traders consolidated access to much of the liquidity in the Bitcoin market." Blockchain has been making large strides in the Bitcoin world over the last few months. Blockchain.info has taken custodial custody of bitcoin.com, the premier landing page of our generation, and given it a revamp. Before that project, Blockchain bought ZeroBlock, a news aggregation app, in December of 2013 and also RTBTC, a trading platform, in March of 2014. Today, Blockchain's acquisitions have culminated into the ZeroBlock Trading....