Blockchain.info Former Developer Launches Competing Bitcoin Wallet
Timothy Lee, a former software developer at Blockchain.info, has announced the launch of ArcBit, an open source bitcoin wallet that supports stealth addresses and promises to provide greater user privacy. Lee, who had been working as a software developer at Blockchain.info for over a year, has left one of the hottest bitcoin startups to create his own product, naming a "difference in belief of what a bitcoin wallet should be" with his former employer. Speaking with CoinTelegraph, Lee said that the main reason that led him to leave Blockchain.info was a disagreement with design decisions,....
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Blockchain.info, one of the first bitcoin wallet providers established, hit the 4 million user mark recently. The company has just reached its 2 million user mark last year and has since doubled the amount of clients it serves. "This is really exciting as it points to a positive trend in bitcoin adoption," the bitcoin wallet company noted. Bitcoin Wallet User Growth. The bitcoin industry has encountered more than a few roadblocks in the past year, starting from the continuous tumble in prices and the hacking incidents here and there. Nonetheless, these challenges have been unable to stop....
Some interesting figures coming from Blockchain.info. As we approach the conclusion of 2013, it would appear as if Blockchain.info's user count of their 'My Wallet' bitcoin wallet is fast approaching one million users. Just take a look at the chart above. You can see exponential growth beginning in November, which is pretty much proportional to the huge inflation in the price of bitcoin around the time. At this rate, it looks as if the one million user mark will be crossed in January 2014. But where will we be in one year? Looks like the only way from here is upwards. (via Blockchain.info)
More than 3 million bitcoin wallets have been created on Blockchain.info at present, as the backers of the popular cryptocurrency continue to rely on the world's largest bitcoin wallet provider. The number of Blockchain wallets has more than doubled in the last one year due to rising popularity of bitcoin among technology enthusiasts and companies. Over the last 30 days, the number of wallets has been increased by about 6%, according to statistics from the wallet provider. Until January 2013, the number of wallets on Blockchain were staying below 80,000. Subsequently, there was a steady....
Our friends over at CoinDesk have today published an interesting piece surrounding Blockchain.info. The website, in short, is a great resource even if you're new to the community - allowing visitors to view the block chain (transaction ledger) easily and also create and use a bitcoin wallet. No surprise, but the website is the number one bitcoin-related website in the whole of the Internet. The website has reportedly grown by a whopping 50 percent in the last month alone, and is seeing upwards of 3 million unique visitors last month. As far as hosted bitcoin wallets go, Blockchain.info....
On 4/15/14. Blockchain.info's Nic Cary took to Twitter to tease the Bitcoin populace with an upcoming announcement... Many were reminded of the last time Cary promised an announcement; the announcement fell short of many's expectations. This time around expectations were met and exceeded, Cary truly has presented a crowdpleaser.https://twitter.com/niccary/status/456129500707688449 Blockchain.info announced today that: Blockchain.info has struck a five year deal to exclusively manage the domain name Bitcoin.com. Blockchain.info is positioning itself to maintain and build its preeminence in....