Bitcoin Trading Platform Coinsetter Close to Raising Additional $1.5 Million
New York-based Coinsetter, which has built a platform for high-speed bitcoin trading, is raising additional venture capital. According to a Securities and Exchange (SEC) filing, the company is looking to raise a total of $1.5m. Coinsetter CEO Jaron Lukasiewicz told CoinDesk that the company has already raised most of the funds. "You can't see this from the filing, but we have commitments on the majority of the round. We are now in discussions with a few large investors on the remainder. These are mostly VC firms and very high net worth angels," he said. Numerous investors from the....
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New York City-based bitcoin exchange Coinsetter is still in a beta testing phase, but that's not stopping the platform's users from trading a significant amount of bitcoin. Marshall Swatt, CTO at Coinsetter, announced via Twitter on Tuesday "is starting to achieve some very large daily volume." According to Swatt, the exchange's daily volume has surpassed 1,000 BTC (or over $500k USD). Not bad for a system with a limited user base (for now). Coinsetter describes themselves as a platform designed for the serious trader, capable of handling high-frequency trading and actively sourcing....
Bitcoin exchange Kraken has announced it has purchased Coinsetter in what amounts to one of the larger mergers of notable brands in the bitcoin ecosystem. As a result of the undisclosed deal, Kraken’s exchange will now be available in 37 US states as well as all 10 Canadian provinces. Coinsetter had previously acquired Canadian bitcoin exchange CAVirtex in April, months after it would close citing security concerns. The sale of New York-based Coinsetter, rumored for months, follows an influx of new and well-capitalized entrants in the US bitcoin exchange market, which has seen startups....
Coinstetter integrated with Bitstamp which means more liquidity for Coinsetter clients. Exciting news! We have launched our integration of Bitstamp's order book into our #bitcoin ECN platform. Read more: http://t.co/SvJiStyx72. - Coinsetter (@coinsetter) January 8, 2014. From the Coinsetter Blog: "Our team at Coinsetter has made substantial progress building our high performance ECN platform for bitcoin, which is a plug-and-play option for both active traders and Wall Street institutions. We are currently open to a small group of beta users who have been trading on our internal millisecond....