Reid Hoffman joins Blockstream’s Board of Directors
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn Co-founder and Startup of You author, who sits on the boards of Mozilla Corporation, Swipely, Kiva, and Airbnb joins Blockstream’s Board of Directors as Blockstream raises at least $15.18m in a funding round that is still open. The information was reveled in a recent Securities and Exchange Commissions (SEC) filing. Blockstream is “a private company with a very public mission: the transformation of technologies of trust for the benefit of all.” On commit 5620e43 made October 22, 2014, Blockstream released the Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains....
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