Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire Talks USMS Bitcoin Auction
The bitcoin community eagerly awaits the results of a government bitcoin auction that took place on Friday. Circle Internet Financial, a Boston-based company headed by Jeremy Allaire, is one of a number of different entities that participated in said bitcoin auction, held by the United States Marshals Service. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal on Monday, Allaire suggested that the auction could cause a short-term drop in the price of bitcoin, but looking at the charts this morning, we're looking at a high of $639 at Bitstamp and settled at $615 at the time of this writing. "The....
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Jeremy Allaire is already pretty well known in the tech world, having played an integral part in the creation of ColdFusion, the Macromedia MX (Flash) platform, and online video platform Brightcove. However, he just stepped even further into the limelight. Allaire is now heading up a new company called Circle, which aims to take the bitcoin market by storm. It's made a mighty good start, too, having secured $9m in Series A funding - the largest amount ever raised by a bitcoin company. CoinDesk spoke to Allaire to find out what Circle is all about, where the name came from and just what,....
For many months now, Bitcoiners have been wondering exactly what services Circle would offer to the fledging Digital Currency community. Since 2013, Circle has been notoriously tight-lipped on the specifics of its operation. Some in the community even went as far as to compare Circle to vaporware. Today, all the speculation is laid to rest. Early 5/16/14, CircleCEO Jeremy Allaire took to Circle's blog to reveal “What We Have Been Up to at Circle.” Circle launches its product today to increase the utility value of Bitcoin by reducing friction. Circle is the first worldwide Bitcoin Bank....
On Thursday, Circle’s CEO Jeremy Allaire announced that the company has launched a new stablecoin pegged to the value of the euro (EUR). Allaire said that the new EUROC token is now live on the Ethereum network and will be “available to mint and redeem on June 30th.”
Circle Launches EUROC
Circle has announced the launch of the company’s second major fiat-pegged crypto asset called euro coin (EUROC). The announcement stemmed from Circle’s CEO Jeremy Allaire on Thursday who explained that EUROC already has “broad industry support.”....
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire gave the opening keynote address at Inside Bitcoins New York on 7th April as part of a talk entitled 'Mainstreaming Bitcoin: The Next Phase of Digital Currency Growth & Value Creation'. The two-day conference will feature a number of notable speakers from the industry, including Blockchain's Nicolas Cary, GoCoin's Steve Beauregard and Kraken's Jesse Powell, and is expected to draw roughly 1,000 attendees. The second annual Inside Bitcoins New York conference and expo kicked off on 7th April with a keynote address from Circle CEO and founder Jeremy Allaire that....
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire has called on bitcoin's core developers to "step up" and create a more open, inclusive and well-defined process for the protocol's development. Describing the current state of development as "very ad-hoc, reputation based" and unwelcoming to new participants, he said that the amount of money being invested into bitcoin demanded "a more well-defined governance process and contribution process". "The whole industry should be contributing to the IP of bitcoin," Allaire told CoinDesk ahead of the Bitcoin Finance 2014 conference in Dublin on 2nd July. "The reality is....