“Official Coin of Virtual Reality” Raises 1,022 BTC from Industry Leaders. Now Moves into 30-Day Public Crowdsale
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Halsey Minor News
Halsey Minor is the CNET founder and technology entrepreneur, who was born in 1964 in Virginia, U.S. CNET is a media website that is focused on technology news, reviews, blogs and videos, which was founded in 1994. It is often referred to as the most popular sources of technology news. Halsey Minor is also the establisher of Minor Ventures — a venture capital firm funding tech startups — and a service called Uphold — a digital money service. Halsey’s net worth was estimated around $180 million in 2001, which made him one of the richest people in the world at the time. In 2008, Halsey Minor’s CNET was sold to CBS for $1.8 billion — the bargain that made him more than $200 million. However, in 2013, he owed $100 million to creditors and did not have enough money to repay the debt. A series of bad real estate deals and investments are often named as a reason behind this.
Bitcoin-based service Bitreserve has launched the voucher app Easy.money.
503MSN Money spoke with Bitreserve’s new CEO, Anthony Watson, on Tuesday to talk about the business model of the Bitcoin startup he now heads, and the “challenges and long-term goals” of both his company and Bitcoin.
683Halsey Minor, an American serial tech entrepreneur widely known to have founded CNET in 1993, has set his sights on the Indian market with Bitreserve, his latest venture that he unveiled in 2014.
518New Daily Digest on Hong Kong Issues Bitcoin Warning, Russia Reconsiders Stance, and BitPesa Raises US$1.1 Million
502Bitreserve made waves when it added gold to its system, soon they will let their customers hold their value in oil.
469Halsey Minor was worth Billions after founding C|Net and investing in SalesForce, but he went broke after the 2008 banking crisis. Now he is back. He wants to fix Bitcoin's volatility problem, but he could end up doing much more.
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