Podcast 8: Erik Voorhees Talks Apple Store & John Light Tells Us About the Bitcoin Bitseed Project
In this episode, I talk to Erik Voorhees of ShapeShift.io about the new ShapeShift iOS application, available now in the Apple Store. We feature the song "Give me a Sign" by Bitcoin-supporting band 22Hertz out of Ontario. And for the large part of the episode, I interviewed John Light, host of P2P Connects Us and co-founder of the Bitseed project. Please enjoy. If you know of any bands who would like to get some exposure on our podcast, please don't hesitate to reach out. Also if you have any other feedback, I'm happy to hear it, and hopefully implement it into future shows. Specifically,....
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ShapeShift.io founder Erik Voorhees has launched the first iOS cryptocurrency trading app in App Store. With this launch, Apple users can exchange Bitcoin and 34 other virtual currencies with just a tap on their phones. The team at ShapeShift has first created an app for the iOS store because they expected "resistance from Apple's carefully guarded App Store." However, the company will be rolling out an Android version very soon since most of the consumers are still using Android phones. Speaking to Forbes, the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange said, "We wanted to do the Apple one....
Bitcoin startup Bitseed has announced it is open-sourcing the creation of its new plug-in node. The company, which launched its first node in March, is asking contributors to help evolve its product by completing tasks and solving bounties in exchange for rewards. Bitseed's project is hosted on Assembly, a collaborative platform that tracks contributions to projects with coloured coins on the bitcoin blockchain. John Light, co-founder at Bitseed, told CoinDesk: "The Bitseed Assembly community is our way of trying to make open-source development sustainable, and to financially support the....
Erik Voorhees joined the "Bitcoin Magazine Podcast" to discuss his history with Bitcoin and outlook on the larger decentralized finance ecosystem. The post Interview: What Bitcoin Started With Erik Voorhees appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
The second episode of the official Bitcoin.com Podcast is now live. This episode features Erik Voorhees, a huge name in the Bitcoin industry. Our host Zach Doty talked with Voorhees about several topics surrounding the highly contentious Bitcoin block size debate. Voorhees has earned a lot of respect in the Bitcoin community, especially from the....
According to ShapeShift founder and CEO Erik Voorhees, the company's recently launched iOS app "sailed through" the Apple App Store approval process. "We were expecting quite a bit of pushback from Apple because there have been lots of these horror stories about bitcoin apps, you know, never getting past the bar," he told CoinDesk. "And so we submitted it and crossed our fingers." Since its launch - notable for its release on an app platform known for its restrictive policy toward digital currency - the ShapeShift app has been downloaded more than 600 times, says Voorhees. Issues with the....