Dan Held Leaves Blockchain.info for ChangeTip to Bring Bitcoin Micropayments Mainstream
Dan Held, the former Blockchain.info Product Manager and Co-Founder of ZeroBlock, is joining ChangeTip as their new VP of Product. ChangeTip is currently on a hiring spree after receiving a seed round of $3.5 million in funding. ChangeTip's seed round was led by Pantera Capital but also included big names such as 500 Startups, Bold Start Ventures, and CryptoCurrency Partners. ChangeTip previously had an angel round of $750,000. Also read: Is ChangeTip the Viral Bitcoin Killer App? From ZeroBlock to Blockchain.info to ChangeTip. Dan Held first entered the Bitcoin industry when starting....
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Just one week after raising $3.5m from an impressive cast of VC firms, bitcoin micropayments startup ChangeTip has announced Dan Held will join its team as VP of product management. The acquisition will potentially provide ChangeTip with an experienced addition to its growing team, as Held most recently served as a product manager at bitcoin wallet startup Blockchain and formerly co-founded real-time news and market data app ZeroBlock, a startup that was purchased by Blockchain in an undisclosed deal in late 2013. In an interview regarding the move, Held expressed his intent to help grow....
When it comes down to bitcoin tipping, charities and micropayments, ChangeTip is the industry leader. Recently, they announced the addition of a new feature known as proximity payments to their mobile app. For those who do not know, the ChangeTip mobile app allows anyone in possession of a Twitter of Facebook account to send and receive money from others internationally without any fees whatsoever. Based on this, ChangeTip enables users to carry out P2P payments in the form of tips, donations and gifts, both in USD and bitcoin. Users are free to add money to a ChangeTip wallet, where they....
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