Spanish Bank Bankinter Invests in Bitcoin Startup Coinffeine
Spanish bank Bankinter, through its venture capital arm, invested in Coinffeine, a Spanish startup that develops Bitcoin technology. With this investment of its Innovation Foundation, Bankinter becomes one of the first world's banks to invest in the new cryptocurrency. Also read: Coinffeine: A P2P Alternative to Centralised Bitcoin Exchanges. The Coinffeine team says about the announcement of Bankinter funding: The launch of our platform is imminent, and this will motivate us even more to continue our passionate work to develop new aspects of our pioneer project. Coinffeine has been....
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Coinffeine is a distributed FIAT- Bitcoin exchange technology which enables banks and payment processors to offer Bitcoin services without touching Bitcoin. The strategy of Bankinter with this movement is not only to participate in the capital of the company but also to be one of the main clients of Coinffeine in the future. The Spanish bank Bankinter has invested in the capital of Coinffeine, through the Bankinter Innovation Fundation. With this movement, Bankinter becomes one of the first banks in the world dealing with Bitcoin ecosystem. Funded last June by 4 engineers as the first....
Spanish bank Bankinter has made an investment in Coinffeine, a bitcoin startup launched in June by four engineers aiming to create a new distributed exchange platform. The investment, made through the Bankinter Innovation Foundation, is one of the first in the bitcoin ecosystem, according to the bank. Coinffeine is developing a distributed platform for the exchange of fiat money by cryptocurrencies in a secure and anonymous environment. It is designed to let users send fiat money and transfer bitcoins outside banks in a peer-to-peer (P2P) fashion. BitTorrent for your bitcoins. The....
Spanish Bitcoin company Coinffeine made Bitcoin history when the Spanish startup received investment from the Spanish bank Bankinter through the bank's venture capital arm, making it one of the world's first banks to invest in the novel cryptocurrency ecosystem. Since then, Coinffeine has continued its development work. In December 2014, it unveiled its future P2P Bitcoin Exchange. Coinffeine has now launched the Technical Preview version of its P2P Bitcoin exchange, which will enable users to experience automatic and secure exchanges similar to that offered by traditional exchanges, but....
Bitcoin 2.0 development is becoming more and more popular. While browsing Twitter, I found a project that did not have a lot of media attention. This project, called the Decentral Bank, is a p2p decentralized network that connects to form voting pools that can be used for redeeming withdrawal requests even when an entity has disappeared. To move funds, the majority of servers must vote to push a transaction thus, security is distributed across the entire network of servers. The Decentral Bank platform is based on Bitcoin 2.0 protocol and utilizes features that are not commonly used by....
Spanish Bitcoin startup Coinffeine has presented the Trial version of their innovative P2P application in Madrid (Spain). The open-source software allows you to buy and sell bitcoins anonymously and safely without depending on a central entity. Founded in 2014 by four Spanish computer engineers, Coinffeine is developing an innovative decentralized, anonymous, secure and trustless Bitcoin exchange. The founders describe Coinffeine as "BitTorrent for Bitcoin," an open source, Peer to Peer Bitcoin exchange platform. Coinffeine is the first decentralized marketplace for Bitcoin, and due to the....