Blockchain.info Reports 70K New Wallets Created in 7 Days
Popular online wallet provider Blockchain.info today sent a tweet that notes that the service has had 70,000 new wallet registrations in the period of one week. If basic math isn't your forte, that's 10,000 new sign-ups per day, which is certainly a significant number. Blockchain.info is known for their ease-of-use online wallets, and as such, has become quite reputable in the Bitcoin community. Not only that, Blockchain.info also serves as the de facto place to view Bitcoin transactions taking place around the world, which of course are public as per the Bitcoin protocol. No doubt, the....
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The number of web wallet users on popular bitcoin site Blockchain.info continues to climb. According to Blockchain.info (who made this reddit post), over 1.5 million "My Wallet" accounts have established. Chart data on the Blockchain.info site shows just under 1.5 million, but it has not yet been updated. If you recall in late October, Blockchain announced that 500,000 wallets had been created. Fast forward to January of 2014, and it was announced that a whopping one million wallets had been created. Recently, online bitcoin brokerage Coinbase surpassed one million wallets in late....
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....
Blockchain.info has reached the biggest milestone in its history - it now boasts over a million wallets. A year ago it had fewer than 100,000 users and by late October the company announced that it had created 500,000 wallets, so it is evident that things are picking up. A Blockchain.info representative told CoinDesk that the company plans to celebrate the latest milestone with some big prizes. Back in October, the lucky user who created the 500,000th wallet was rewarded with 10 BTC, so the stakes are high. Blockchain acknowledged that reaching the one million mark is a major....
To celebrate the creation of 500,000 online wallets, Blockchain.info will be giving away a pretty penny to some random, unsuspecting individual. That reward is 10 BTC, worth just over 2,000USD at the time of this writing. Blockchain.info has confirmed the giveaway on both Facebook and Twitter, so we know this is for real. For that one person who ends up winning, that 10 BTC could be worth a whole lot more in a few years! Original announcement: Blockchain.info is about to reach 500,000 total wallets created, and we are extremely grateful to the bitcoin community for it's continual support....
Blockchain.info today announced that they are the second website in the world to receive an SSL certificate for their .onion address. This is a huge win for privacy and Bitcoin enthusiasts around the world, and it answers growing concerns surrounding the security of using web wallets such as Blockchain.info while connected via the Tor network. In the past, there have been several reports of Blockchain.info users losing their funds after using Blockchain.info through the Tor network. Rogue Tor exit nodes were being specifically used to execute man in the middle (MITM) attacks on users....