Exclusive: Interview with Sandeep Goenka of Zebpay
India is a very attractive market for most of the Bitcoin companies. The country has its own homegrown Bitcoin companies and there are many international ones who are looking to set up shop in India. Zebpay is one such homegrown Bitcoin company. NewsBTC caught up with Sandeep Goenka, Co-founder of Zebpay and asked him a few questions. Here is what Sandeep had to say. NewsBTC: Can you tell us a bit about Zebpay? Sandeep: Zebpay is the world's simplest Bitcoin app. For regular people who are not geeks, using Bitcoins has a learning curve. You have to understand concepts like Bitcoin....
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Zebpay, an app-based bitcoin exchange, has just crossed the 100,000 downloads milestone for Android and iOS devices, highlighting "India's growing interest in bitcoin as an investment, commodity and technology." Eyeing a user-base of more than 450,000 by the end of 2016, Zebpay is now in the process of raising additional funding to "expand more aggressively in India," Sandeep Goenka, co-founder and COO of Zebpay, told Bitcoin Magazine. Founded in 2015 by computer engineer, Mahin Gupta, and businessmen, Saurabh Agrawal and Sandeep Goenka, Zebpay is a startup specializing....
Sandeep Goenka, COO and co-founder, ZebPay, attributes the increased interest in Bitcoin in India to demonetization. ZebPay, an Indian Bitcoin exchange company, clocked in a turnover of over 500 crore (USD 5 billion). They did more than Rs 100 crore of trade turnover in November 2016 and are on target to achieve a turnover of Rs 1,000 crore, this year. Sandeep Goenka, COO and co-founder, ZebPay, attributes the increased interest in Bitcoin in India to demonetization. This sudden rise in interest has catapulted the value of the bitcoin from around $300 last year to now over $700. Zebpay....
We have been covering a lot about the Indian Bitcoin ecosystem for a while now, and in a recent post we have discussed the various features offered by prominent Indian Bitcoin start-ups in an attempt to get more people to adopt and use Bitcoin in their day-to-day transactions. Zebpay is one such Indian Bitcoin company which has made the process of Bitcoin transfer as easy as sending instant messages on WhatsApp or WeChat. Zebpay has recently started selling cash vouchers for e-commerce sites, which can be bought using Bitcoin. This way, the company is allowing its customers to indirectly....
Since the beginning of 2015, the Indian Bitcoin industry has seen an emergence of payment services platforms and cryptocurrency exchange services providers. Startups including Zebpay and Coinsecure have begun to gain popularity among Indian investors and corporations in search of alternative assets and properties. Bitcoin exchange and wallet service provider Zebpay's CEO Sandeep Goenka stated in a recent interview that an increasing number of investors and companies are gearing toward Bitcoin as an asset and as an investment. "One can park money in the wallet in the hope that the value of....
Bitcoin is drawing interest as an investment and store of value in India. Companies and high-net-worth individuals especially have begun looking to the cryptocurrency as a possible asset. Sandeep Goenka, CEO of India-based Bitcoin wallet Zebpay, explained to Business Standard that Bitcoin's deflationary nature makes it appealing as an asset class: "one can park money in the; wallet in the hope that the value of bitcoins would go up." Zebpay is one of several major players on the Indian Bitcoin scene; others include wallet Unocoin and trading platform Coinsecure. Goenka explained that....