Crowdfunding campaign launched by New York-based bitcoin exchange Atlas

Crowdfunding campaign launched by New York-based bitcoin exchange Atlas

A campaign to gain members and crowdfunding for a new bitcoin exchange has been launched by a New York-based company called Atlas Inc. It claims to use software that it describes as already being battle tested and to have Wall Street trading experts on its staff. According to the campaign video, its software has already been used for large volume trading. It thinks this will give it an edge over other exchanges that have suffered long backlogs of trades due to spikes in trading volume. It calls the software the "Atlas web-based workstation". However, it does not identify the so-called....


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