Buttercoin Promises To Launch *Very* Soon... But Where And What?
Buttercoin has just emailed everyone that signed up for their early access list! That's right, they made a PR campaign out of their launch. If you are interesting in pushing me further up the queue to get more information on Buttercoin to the masses faster, please follow this link and register for early access. Who Is Buttercoin? Buttercoin was founded by Cedric Dahl and Bennet Hoffman, formerly of CoinHarvest, back in 2013 and received roughly $1.6 million in funding from various sources including Google Ventures and Y Combinator. Dahl and Hoffman are targeting the International....
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A new start-up based in Palo Alto, California is hoping to make a splash in bitcoin trading. They're Buttercoin, and this venture capitalist-backed service has just launched early access to their platform. The soft launch of Buttercoin comes just hours following Mt. Gox's filing for bankruptcy protection, signaling that better things are on the horizon for traders. Buttercoin has reportedly received on the order of $1 million from investors, among which include Kevin Rose of Google Ventures (also, co-founder of Digg) - who teased the early access program today on Twitter. As of this....
Buttercoin officially launched today, bringing what it calls a "reliable, domestic bitcoin marketplace" to the US, one it believes provides the first advanced foundational service to the ecosystem's largest, and perhaps most complex market. Boasting Centralway Ventures, Google Ventures, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, Rothenberg Ventures and Y Combinator among its investors, Buttercoin claims to allow US bitcoin businesses to sell bitcoins and receive payout in just one business day. At launch, Buttercoin also lists impressive names from the US bitcoin ecosystem as clients, including....
The way the community thinks about the bitcoin network is wrong, at least in the eyes of Buttercoin CEO Cedric Dahl. Maybe he won't say it exactly, but it's there, in the words he uses to describe the US-based "bitcoin marketplace" he heads, and the words he doesn't. At face value, Buttercoin's market approach may seem simple - it's a place where you can buy and sell bitcoin. But to Dahl, it's a subtle but sizable change in the way we think about financial services enabled by both bitcoin and the Internet. Take, for example, the business he most often cites in conversation, Amazon Web....
The recent developments with Buttercoin, a Bitcoin trading platform last week caught everyone by surprise. The company backed by heavyweights like Google Ventures, Y Combinator, Rothenberg Ventures etc. was forced to shut down its operations due to what they claim to be lack of funding. Bennett Hoffman and Cedric Dahl founded the Palo Alto, California based company in 2013. The company attracted a lot of attention and funding to rise through the ranks of Bitcoin based startups. Buttercoin later went on to become the first Bitcoin business to raise investment form a prominent Wall Street....
Company builder Centralway is investing $250,000 in bitcoin startup Buttercoin via its new early-stage investment arm Centralway Ventures. The company, which is set to be headquartered in Somerset House in London, will invest $50m each year in around 20 or 30 startup firms at the seed or early stage plus in bigger Series A funding rounds, TechCrunch reports. It said its preference will be to invest in companies early on and then continue investing in the same businesses as they grow. Buttercoin, which was founded earlier this year, is the first company Centralway Ventures is investing in.....