Coinbase Has Acquired Blockr.io
An an interesting development today, San Francisco-based Coinbase has acquired blockchain explorer Blockr.io. The company wrote in an official blog post Monday: As Coinbase continues to grow, we're always keeping an eye out for other companies and individuals making waves in digital currency and helping make bitcoin easy to use. One such company is Blockr.io, a popular block explorer service that caught our eye earlier this year with its sleek, intuitive design and API. Blockr.io parses the bitcoin blockchain and presents the data to users in an easy to read way. As part of the deal - of....
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Coinbase has acquired Blockr.io as part of an undisclosed deal. With the move, the San Francisco-based bitcoin financial services startup will add a popular block explorer service to its list of assets. Coinbase already offers merchant processing, secure vault storage and consumer wallet hosting, and extends its presence to yet another vertical with Blockr.io. In a blog post announcing the purchase, Coinbase cited Blockr.io's sleek, intuitive user interface and API as the chief motivating factors, writing: "We're always keeping an eye out for other companies and individuals making waves in....
Bitcoin exchange and wallet provider Coinbase has acquired the team behind content-sharing platforms Kippt and Inc, headed by Jori Lallo and Karri Saarinen. Coinbase says it has known the two for quite some time and they have already collaborated on some projects, both formally and informally. "Both will be joining our product team to help us continue to make bitcoin easy to use for the everyday consumer, merchant, and developer," Coinbase said in its blog. Coinbase welcomes the Kippt team - I'm excited to announce that we've acquired the team behind Kippt and... http://t.co/tOK4bYmqie. -....
What could be called a partial alternative to Blockchain.info has launched this weekend dubbed Blockr.io, a 'block reader' which offers an appealing interface for examining the bitcoin block chain, addresses, and more. It does not, however, offer wallet services. It's what you would expect, and carries a pretty intuitive interface. You can check address balances, view charts, and even view network facts (referred to as trivia) on the site. There's even an alternate side of the website dedicated to litecoin, in which you can do the same as noted above. It goes without saying that it appears....
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