BTC.com Domain Sold to GAWMiners for Record $1 Million
This piece has been updated following the official announcement of the sale by Domain Guardians. The final sale price was $1m rather than $1.1m as originally stated by GAWMiners CEO Josh Garza. The domain name BTC.com has been sold to bitcoin mining equipment specialist GAWMiners. It had been on the market for less than a month before GAWMiners chief executive Josh Garza secured the $1m deal. GAWMiners is a relatively large mining hardware vendor. The Connecticut-based firm sells a wide range of SHA-256 and scrypt ASICs, including hardware from Bitmain, Gridseed, Innosilicon, Rock Miner,....
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An interesting report from news website CryptoCoinsNews.com reveals some interesting information with regard to a bitcoin-related domain sale. Josh Garza of GAWMiners miners told the website that he managed to pick up the BTC.com domain name for a whopping $1.1 million - a record sale in the bitcoin industry. Other bitcoin-related domain names have previously gone up for sale, but none have been bought for quite as much as BTC.com, which is the most commonly used symbol for bitcoin (and it'll really stink for Garza if the community decides to formally adopt XBT as the symbol). In February....
Hashlet Solo Family. GAWMiners introduced Hashlet cloud mining just a few short weeks ago and quickly sold a huge number of them in a short time. GAWMiners quickly followed up with the Hashlet Solos, which are mining pool specific. GAWMiners went on to sell more than $1 million in Hashlet Solos in 24 hrs. Now, they are following it up again with the Hashlet Genesis SHA-256 miners. Josh Garza, CEO of GAWMiners, was straight forward when I asked him about the Hashlet Genesis. We launched Hashlet with a clear goal: Tip, the scale back in favor of individual miners by making economies of scale....
The Bitcoin domain BTC.com was purchased by Josh Garza of GAWMiners for a whopping 1.1 million US dollars. As larger players and investors come into the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency world, more money is being invested in properties and businesses. BTC.com was available on the market for a couple of weeks, even CCN was contacted for the possibility of buying the domain. And now it turns out that Josh Garza was the lucky one to acquire it. Josh Garza woke me up at 2:30 am today with this message: Josh Garza. To: Scott Fargo. Date: August 4, 2014, 2:32 AM. So you wanted some news? I just bought....
The domain name BitcoinWallet.com has been purchased by Austin, Texas, entrepreneur Alex Charfen for $250,000. Niko Younts, a media consultant, bitcoin investor and the domain's previous owner, broke the news via Twitter on 5th February. BitcoinWallet (.com) just sold for $250,000 and BitcoinWallets (.com) is pending at $200k. #bitcoin #wallstreet. - Niko Younts (@NeverLoseVision) February 5, 2014. Younts, who confirmed the sale to CoinDesk but declined to comment, also noted in the post that he is close to selling the domain BitcoinWallets.com for a similar asking price. The domain asset....
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