Overstock to Allow Stockholders to Trade or Buy Its Shares on its Blockchain Platform
Overstock.com, Inc. will allow its stockholders to purchase shares of its preferred stock, including those to be issued and traded exclusively using the bitcoin-based “T0” platform the company developed for trading equities. The announcement marks a major step in the company’s efforts to offer a bitcoin blockchain-based trading system for equities. The company noted in a press release that it is making the offering to demonstrate its T0 platform, while providing its stockholders the opportunity to participate. Overstock’s communications director, Judd Bagley, hinted during the Money20/20....
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On Tuesday morning at the Money 20/20 Conference in Las Vegas, Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock and t0, announced the historic arrival of trading publicly offered Overstock shares on the t0 blockchain. Overstock Moving Forward With t0. Starting on December 15th, individuals who purchased Overstock shares by the November 7th record date will qualify to purchase shares of its preferred stock, including preferred shares to be issued and traded exclusively on the t0 platform. As such, Overstock will become the first company to legally trade a publicly listed security on a blockchain solution.....
Overstock.com, the online retailer that has been one of bitcoin’s most visible supporters among U.S. businesses, has become the first publicly-traded company to issue stock over the Internet, distributing more than 126,000 company shares using the bitcoin blockchain, according to Wired. Through a subsidiary called tØ, Overstock has spent the past two years building a blockchain-based technology to facilitate trading financial securities. Overstock Foreshadowed The Offering. The company announced in October that it would allow its stockholders to purchase shares of its preferred stock. The....
Online retailer Overstock.com has closed the first-ever Series A preferred funding round with shares sold on a blockchain. Of the total $10.9m raised from existing shareholders, about $1.9m was raised via shares traded on the tØ blockchian platform developed by Overstock.com subsidiary Medici. The Series A consisted of 126,565 shares sold on the tØ blockchain platform for $15.68. A separate Series B consisted of 569,333 shares sold using traditional technology. The company had originally set out to raise as much as $30m from selling 2m shares. Shares traded on the blockchain platform....
Described by Overstock’s communications director, Judd Bagley, as a platform for trading “widgets” whose first use case will be equities - stocks and bonds, t0 which has been touted to be the world’s first Blockchain-based platform to issue equities and usher global financial system into a new age may be operational by December 2016. The t0 issuance and trading platform is developed by a Overstock’s majority-owned financial technology subsidiary, t0. At the Money 20/20 conference in Las Vegas, Bagley hinted on Monday October 24 at t0’s advantages over traditional equities trading systems....
E-commerce giant Overstock’s blockchain stock sale is set to begin later this month. Overstock announced today that Connecticut-based investment bank Source Capital Group, Inc. will serve as dealer-manager for its planned blockchain-based stock offering. In March, the e-commerce giant said that it would issue its own stock via blockchain, utilizing its tØ blockchain platform to facilitate trades. During an event last month, Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne said that trading of the stock could begin as early as mid-December. Now, the company has divulged new details. According to Overstock, the....