BlockTrail's Mint Trying to Claim Its Pound of Flesh
Bitcoin has been around for about 6 years now and one of the main reasons for it to become popular is its use in illegal transactions. In its early days, bitcoin was adopted as a safe and anonymous payment method for buying, selling drugs and other contraband. Platforms like Agora and the now defunct Silk Road have been running exclusively on bitcoin. As time progresses, these older bitcoins have seen a lot of transactions, many of them illegal. We know that the complete transaction history of each bitcoin can be accessed from the Blockchain. There are many tainted bitcoins out there which....
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In a rebuffal of bitcoin’s fungibility, Dutch API-provider BlockTrail yesterday launched its Mint exchange, which swaps “old” coins for newly mined ones. In a first of its kind, users can buy bitcoins that came straight from a mining pool, and therefore have the shortest possible transaction history of any coins on the open market. BlockTrail believes that freshly mined coins – coins that are awarded to the miner of a new block through the coinbase transaction – are worth more than used ones. This is because these coins can be easily traced back to the Mint and the mining pools, which in....
The Bitcoin wallet space just got another heavyweight contender. The one who intends to spar with the likes of Blockchain and Coinbase while keeping an eye out on those like Xapo and Circle who are in a slightly lower weight class than the former. The Amsterdam based BlockTrail has recently launched its new multiplatform, multisignature secure bitcoin wallet. The BlockTrail wallet is available for Android, iOS and web users at the moment. According to the company, BlockTrail's wallet is more secure than most of the existing alternatives as it comes implemented with multisignature and HD....
The world of Bitcoin and digital currency is a playground for aspiring developers, as there are still many technological advancements and implementations waiting to be unlocked. In order to help with that process, there are several API’s at your disposal to add Bitcoin functionalities to your applications. One of those platforms is BlockTrail, and they offer a complete set of tools to take your app to the next level. Creating a foundation for the infrastructure you wish to employ in your application is something BlockTrail prides itelf on. Rather than letting developers figure out the....
Following its acquisition by one of the world’s leading companies in the Bitcoin space, Bitmain, Blocktrail is rebranding to BTC.com and it will be doing localized marketing. Alejandro De La Torre, business development at Blocktrail, explains to CoinTelegraph: “We will be translating our bitcoin wallet and site into many different languages. So, for example for Spanish, once we've released the update, we will be going to Spain to do events presentations, parties, videos etc.” Most used Bitcoin app ever? Bitmain is a leading Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer particularly for the Antminer....
BlockTrail is one of the leading Bitcoin API developers. We at NewsBTC spoke to Boaz Bechar, the CEO of BlockTrail. We threw a few questions at him and guess what, he threw back some responses (pretty good ones too). Read further to know how the interview went. NewsBTC: Let's start with BlockTrail, Can you tell us more about it? Boaz: BlockTrail is known for developers API. It is an interface structure which comes with wallet functionality, advanced bitcoin features, multisignature security and HD wallet. It is one of the most advanced APIs out there. Another popular product of ours is the....