Bitcoin Startup LazyPay Competes In Virgin Mobile's Pitch To Rich Competition
Bitcoin startup LazyPay has a chance to win a share of the £1,000,000 in prize money for the winner of Virgin Mobile's Pitch To Rich competition. The London-based Bitcoin wallet, exchange and payment processor is the only digital currency startup competing in the event. The annual competition tries to find the brightest and best entrepreneurs in all of....
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Virgin Mobile’s Pitch to Rich competition invites startups to compete with each other to win a share of more than £1,000,000 in prizes. Currently, more than 2,000 entrants have pitched their startups. LazyPay, a Bitcoin payment processing platform, is the only Bitcoin startup to enter. LazyPay allows online merchants and local shops to accept payments in bitcoin and other digital currencies. The startup aims to help merchants through cheaper transaction fees, zero chargebacks and funds wired faster to bank accounts. “It’s important to note that while the established online payment systems....
Local development corporation Downtown Brooklyn Partnership is holding a business pitch competition among companies in Brooklyn and a bitcoin startup is included in the mix. The prize money of $50,000 will come from Partnership co-chairs MaryAnne Gilmartin, president and chief executive of Forest City Ratner Cos., and Bre Pettis, founder of 3-D-printing company MakerBot. Nearly 70 startups joined the competition and the finalists are set to give short speeches and answer questions from the judges for four minutes. Brooklyn-Based Bitcoin Startup. "I'm sharpening up," said Joswell Valdez,....
250,000 US Dollars or 297 Bitcoins (at 840$/BTC). This is what a space travel costs with Virgin Galactic, Virgin Group's company that is specialized in space tourism. The price is visible on Virgin Calactic's website and also mentioned by Virgin's founder, billionaire businessman Richard Branson, in an interview for CNBC, stating he invested in Bitcoin in the past. This news coincides with the creation of BTCTrip and an announcement by CheapAir, another travel agency that is already long in business, both now accept Bitcoin for flight and hotel bookings. So, currently one can travel around....
The winning BitMEX team in Hong Kong. Hong Kong-based bitcoin derivatives platform BitMEX received a vote of confidence this week when it won the Hong Kong leg of Slush's startup challenge. The prize will see the team head off on an all-expenses-paid trip to Finland for the main Slush 2014 event in Helsinki, which takes place from 18-19th November. Slush is a worldwide pitching competition for startups with local events in at least 18 different cities. Its events aim to match startups with venture funders and also feature thousands of pre-arranged private meetings between startups and....
Sir Richard Branson, one of the wealthiest men in the United Kingdom (well, in the entire world) had an interview with Bloomberg News (view the video interview below). A remarkable one as the entrepreneur and founder of Virgin took a clear stance on Bitcoin and virtual currencies. Bitcoin is working. Branson had shown his support for the idea behind Bitcoin before, but was put to the test again by the Bloomberg interviewer after making a statement concerning the upcoming Virgin Galactic spaceflights. As we all know, Virgin plans to be one of the first companies to offer commercial trips....