Bitcoin maintains lead over the competition, but altcoins have one significant advantage.
22562
BlockCypher News
BlockCypher is an IT company specializing in blockchain web services and middleware, which was founded by Catheryne Nicholson and Matthieu Riou in 2014. BlockCypher is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. BlockCypher works in such fields as peer-to-peer (p2p), business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) payments, identity management, cross-border payments, Know Your Customer (KYC) solutions and more. BlockCypher claims that their products are stable and scalable due to their cloud-optimized infrastructure and multiple data centers being at the disposal of BlockCypher. The main BlockCypher product is BlockCypher’s JSON API, used to interact with various blockchains. Notable blockchains that are supported by BlockCypher are Dash, Ethereum, Bitcoin and others. There was no BlockCypher’s ICO, as all the funding was provided by venture capital firms and entrepreneurs.
Blockchain technology development firms and infrastructure providers along with Bitcoin mining firms are starting to be funded by federal agencies in the US such the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
15068Dash reveals it has clinched yet another partnership aimed at increasing its mainstream adoption prospects.
12830Bitcoin payments processor Bitnet has launched a new tool that allows merchants to mitigate the risk of accepting bitcoin payments without confirmations.
754BlockCypher, a blockchain web services company, has announced closure on a US$3.1M seed-funding round.
572BlockCypher released their much-anticipated Payment API, which enables a quick and reliable way for users to accept payments
502With the release of BlockCypher’s Multisig API a bitcoin (and litecoin) app can now implement multisig in less than an hour.
607