Bitcoin Firm Elliptic Awarded Security Project of the Year Award

Bitcoin Firm Elliptic Awarded Security Project of the Year Award

In a post penned by the CTO & Co-Founder, Dr. Adam Joyce, UK-based Bitcoin analytics firm Elliptic has announced that it has been awarded Security Project of the Year award by the leading financial magazine, The Banker. The Banker's Technology Projects of the Year awards are among the highly coveted in the industry. This year, the magazine received 270 submissions in various categories such as risk management, security, social media, strategic transformation, trading, payments, developers APIs, data and several others. Other winners included JPMorgan Asset Management, BNY Mellon,....


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