Headquarters:Metro Manila, Philippines
Area served:Philippines
Founder(s)
Ron Hose
Runar Petursson
Industry:Financial Services
Website:Official website
Launched:2014
Coins.ph is a financial services platform founded in 2014 by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs Ron Hose and Runar Petursson in Metro Manila, Philippines.
As a service running on blockchain technology, Coins.ph uses digital currency as a low cost gateway to banking, extending the reach of financial institutions beyond their existing branch infrastructure to the 300+ million who are unbanked in the Philippines and the rest of Southeast Asia.
ServicesCoins.ph provides person-to-person wallet transfers, bill payments, mobile top-ups, online shopping, and remittance services. Its cash delivery network covers tens of thousands of banks, pawnshops, payment outlets, and door-to-door delivery across the region.
Area served:Philippines
Founder(s)
Ron Hose
Runar Petursson
Industry:Financial Services
Website:Official website
Launched:2014
Coins.ph is a financial services platform founded in 2014 by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs Ron Hose and Runar Petursson in Metro Manila, Philippines.
As a service running on blockchain technology, Coins.ph uses digital currency as a low cost gateway to banking, extending the reach of financial institutions beyond their existing branch infrastructure to the 300+ million who are unbanked in the Philippines and the rest of Southeast Asia.
ServicesCoins.ph provides person-to-person wallet transfers, bill payments, mobile top-ups, online shopping, and remittance services. Its cash delivery network covers tens of thousands of banks, pawnshops, payment outlets, and door-to-door delivery across the region.
Headquarters:Luxembourg
Area served:Worldwide
Website:blockchain.info
Launched:August 30, 2011
Blockchain.info is a bitcoin wallet and block explorer service.Launched in August 2011, the service provides data on recent transactions, mined blocks in the bitcoin blockchain, charts on the bitcoin economy, and statistics and resources for developers. Information from and links to the website are common in media coverage and in bitcoin forums.The Blockchain.info mobile app for Android allows users to securely send and receive bitcoins and browse blockchain information.In December 2013, the company acquired ZeroBlock LLC, makers of the leading mobile bitcoin app.
Blockchain.info was the world's most visited bitcoin website in 2013, with over 118 million page views and over 3 million unique visitors in November 2013, and in January 2014 Blockchain.info reached one million user wallets.
In February 2014, Apple Inc. removed the Blockchain app from the iOS App Store, prompting a harsh response from Blockchain and public outcry in the bitcoin community, most notably within the Reddit community.In July 2014, Apple reinstated the Blockchain app back into the iOS App Store.
In October 2014, Blockchain.info closed a $30.5m fundraising round from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Mosaic Ventures, which was the biggest round of financing in the digital currency sector at that time.
In December 2014, Blockchain.info became one of the first prominent Bitcoin wallets to offer a dedicated hidden service on the Tor network, for users who desire to conduct Bitcoin transactions with greater privacy and lesser third party surveillance, as well as to provide end-to-end encryption for Tor users who were previously vulnerable to malicious exit nodes sniffing their keys and stealing their Bitcoins.
In early 2015, the company passed 3 million wallets created using their services.
In August 2015, Blockchain.info's CEO Peter Smith was invited to accompany then UK Prime Minister David Cameron on a tour throughout southeast Asia to engage with local representatives about the UK's leading role as a global fintech hub.
Also in August 2015, Blockchain.info passed 4 million wallets created using their services.
In May 2016, Blockchain.info announced Thunder, which claims to be an implementation of the Lightning Network.
Transaction volume had exceeded 100 million by August, 2016.
Area served:Worldwide
Website:blockchain.info
Launched:August 30, 2011
Blockchain.info is a bitcoin wallet and block explorer service.Launched in August 2011, the service provides data on recent transactions, mined blocks in the bitcoin blockchain, charts on the bitcoin economy, and statistics and resources for developers. Information from and links to the website are common in media coverage and in bitcoin forums.The Blockchain.info mobile app for Android allows users to securely send and receive bitcoins and browse blockchain information.In December 2013, the company acquired ZeroBlock LLC, makers of the leading mobile bitcoin app.
Blockchain.info was the world's most visited bitcoin website in 2013, with over 118 million page views and over 3 million unique visitors in November 2013, and in January 2014 Blockchain.info reached one million user wallets.
In February 2014, Apple Inc. removed the Blockchain app from the iOS App Store, prompting a harsh response from Blockchain and public outcry in the bitcoin community, most notably within the Reddit community.In July 2014, Apple reinstated the Blockchain app back into the iOS App Store.
In October 2014, Blockchain.info closed a $30.5m fundraising round from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Mosaic Ventures, which was the biggest round of financing in the digital currency sector at that time.
In December 2014, Blockchain.info became one of the first prominent Bitcoin wallets to offer a dedicated hidden service on the Tor network, for users who desire to conduct Bitcoin transactions with greater privacy and lesser third party surveillance, as well as to provide end-to-end encryption for Tor users who were previously vulnerable to malicious exit nodes sniffing their keys and stealing their Bitcoins.
In early 2015, the company passed 3 million wallets created using their services.
In August 2015, Blockchain.info's CEO Peter Smith was invited to accompany then UK Prime Minister David Cameron on a tour throughout southeast Asia to engage with local representatives about the UK's leading role as a global fintech hub.
Also in August 2015, Blockchain.info passed 4 million wallets created using their services.
In May 2016, Blockchain.info announced Thunder, which claims to be an implementation of the Lightning Network.
Transaction volume had exceeded 100 million by August, 2016.
Coinbase was founded in June 2012 by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam.It enrolled in the Summer 2012 Y Combinator startup incubator program. In October 2012, the company launched the services to buy and sell bitcoin through bank transfers.
In May 2013, the company received a US$5 million Series A investment led by Fred Wilson from the venture capital firm Union Square Ventures.
In December 2013, the company received a US$25 million investment, from the venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures and Ribbit Capital.
In 2014, the company grew to one million users, acquired the blockchain explorer service Blockr and the web bookmarking company Kippt, secured insurance covering the value of bitcoin stored on their servers, and launched the vault system for secure bitcoin storage.Throughout 2014, the company also formed partnerships with Overstock, Dell, Expedia, Dish Network, Time Inc., and Wikipedia to power accepting bitcoin payments.The company also added bitcoin payment processing capabilities to the traditional payment companies Stripe, Braintree, and PayPal.
In January 2015, the company received a US$75 million investment, led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the New York Stock Exchange, USAA, and several banks, "apparently the first time any traditional financial institutions have taken direct stakes in a bitcoin enterprise.Later in January, the company launched a U.S.-based bitcoin exchange for professional traders called Coinbase Exchange.
Coinbase began to offer services in Canada in 2015, but in July 2016, Coinbase announced it would halt services in August after the closure of their Canadian online payments service provider Vogogo.
On 29 March 2016, Coinbase was listed by UK-based company Richtopia at number 2 in the list of 100 Most Influential Blockchain Organisations.
In May 2016, the company rebranded the Coinbase Exchange, changing the name to the Global Digital Asset Exchange (GDAX) and offering Ether, the value token of Ethereum, for trade on its professional trading exchange service.In July 2016, they extended the support to their "Coinbase" retail exchange by adding Ether as only the second digital currency offered to retail customers.
In May 2013, the company received a US$5 million Series A investment led by Fred Wilson from the venture capital firm Union Square Ventures.
In December 2013, the company received a US$25 million investment, from the venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures and Ribbit Capital.
In 2014, the company grew to one million users, acquired the blockchain explorer service Blockr and the web bookmarking company Kippt, secured insurance covering the value of bitcoin stored on their servers, and launched the vault system for secure bitcoin storage.Throughout 2014, the company also formed partnerships with Overstock, Dell, Expedia, Dish Network, Time Inc., and Wikipedia to power accepting bitcoin payments.The company also added bitcoin payment processing capabilities to the traditional payment companies Stripe, Braintree, and PayPal.
In January 2015, the company received a US$75 million investment, led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the New York Stock Exchange, USAA, and several banks, "apparently the first time any traditional financial institutions have taken direct stakes in a bitcoin enterprise.Later in January, the company launched a U.S.-based bitcoin exchange for professional traders called Coinbase Exchange.
Coinbase began to offer services in Canada in 2015, but in July 2016, Coinbase announced it would halt services in August after the closure of their Canadian online payments service provider Vogogo.
On 29 March 2016, Coinbase was listed by UK-based company Richtopia at number 2 in the list of 100 Most Influential Blockchain Organisations.
In May 2016, the company rebranded the Coinbase Exchange, changing the name to the Global Digital Asset Exchange (GDAX) and offering Ether, the value token of Ethereum, for trade on its professional trading exchange service.In July 2016, they extended the support to their "Coinbase" retail exchange by adding Ether as only the second digital currency offered to retail customers.
- Xapo is a Switzerland-based company that provides a bitcoin wallet combined with a cold storage vault and a bitcoin-based debit card.
Xapo CEO and entrepreneur Wences Casares became interested in bitcoins because of the frequent financial fluctuations in his native Argentina.He has said that his family’s finances were “devastated as the economy (in Argentina) rocketed from inflation to deflation to devaluation.”Casares believes that digital currencies such as bitcoin “could solve the disjointed nature of our world economy.”
In 2011, Casares bought his first bitcoins but couldn’t find a way to store them, so he built a ‘vault’ for his own use.Friends, and later financial institutions, soon asked Casares if they could store their bitcoins in his vault.This became the foundation for Xapo, which was founded in late 2013 by Casares and COO Federico Murrone.Xapo opened its products to the public in March 2014.
Casares said Xapo was founded with the aim of making the bitcoin currency more secure and accessible.The Xapo Wallet operates through a mobile app and online and includes the ability to transfer funds to and from the Xapo Vault.In April 2014, Xapo introduced a debit card that will link to the user’s Xapo Wallet and will function like a standard debit card, except that it is backed by bitcoins instead of traditional currency.
Prior to Xapo, Casares founded and later sold online brokerage firm Patagon to Banco Santander for $750 million.He also launched the first Internet provider in his home country of Argentina in 1994.
In May 2015 Xapo moved its headquarters from Palo Alto, California to Zurich in Switzerland.
- BitPay is a global bitcoin payment service provider headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.It was founded in May 2011 by Tony Gallippi and Stephen Pair. BitPay provides payment processing services for merchants, and is one of the largest bitcoin payment processors.In 2014, BitPay started processing $1 million USD daily.
BitPay has partnered with many large merchants over the past year including Microsoft, NewEgg, TigerDirect, and Warner Bros. Records.BitPay has also partnered with PayPal as well as Merchant Acquirers such as Global Payments and Alternet Systems.
BitPay has developed many open source bitcoin projects.
Services
BitPay's merchant processing offerings mitigate the risk of bitcoin price volatility by allowing the merchant to accept bitcoin and immediately converting it to US Dollars, Euros, or the currency of the merchant's choice.Bitpay works across 30 currencies and because it is non-reversible, it makes it valuable for merchants who are working internationally. In 2013 it was announced that merchants could accept Bitcoin and receive fiat currency the next day for a low 0.99% fee.
In July 2014, BitPay announced that it would offer free and unlimited payment processing, forever.This announcement resulted in TechCrunch declaring that bitcoin is a catalyst for the commoditization of payment processing.Merchants have the ability to accept bitcoin with numerous open source plugins and hosted solutions.
The service for Bitcoin payments, fulfilled by Amazon was first introduced in 2013 and was seen as a positive move for the Bitcoin currency. The module was developed with WooCommerce and has meant that web stores using Amazon.com for fulfillment could from that point forward accept Bitcoin currency. Following the integration it was explained that the module worked closely with the fulfilment API and that the process would be completed automatically. When compared to other processors such as PayPal, many of them have to go through and enter information manually in order to complete the purchase, which isn't the case with BitPay.
In addition to their eCommerce offerings, BitPay also has point-of-sale integration solutions with SoftTouch, VisualTouch and DC POS as well as a Web-App and Android app.The company also provides a payroll API whereby American employees can elect to have all or part of their salary paid in bitcoin.2014 also brought the introduction of Get Bits, an easy to use Facebook app designed for Bitcoin beginners that searches a user's network to find someone who has Bitcoin available.
BitPay has frequently employed members of staff to work on open source projects to benefit the Bitcoin currency. In 2013, one of their new developers who had moved from Red Hat stated that he had been employed by BitPay to simply work on open source projects to aid the development of Bitcoin.
- GREENADDRESS
Wallet Features - Open source clients for both desktop and mobile
- HD/BIP0032
- Per-transaction 2FA via multisignature, of 4 different kinds: email, sms, robot call, Google Authenticator
- 2-of-2 multisig accounts: Create accounts that can take advantage of GreenAddress' trusted-third-party instant confirmations. Account recovery without access to GreenAddress is achieved with pre-generated nLockTime transactions (which must be received, typically via email, from GreenAddress on a regular basis).
- 2-of-3 multisig accounts: Create accounts that allow you to access your funds at any time even without access to GreenAddress, using an additional offline recovery key (which only needs to be saved once).
- Transaction information within 2FA message
- BIP0039 mnemonics
- Receive or Send/Tip password protected Bitcoins with BIP0038 (Facebook, Email, Reddit)
- Never reuses the same address which improves both privacy and security
- Easy to use, fast and convenient
- More
- Great customer support, fast turn around via email, twitter, facebook or reddit
- No practice of any reserve mechanism
- testnet/uat service
- GreenAddress' can't take your funds
- detailed transaction logging, real-time on-screen alerts as funds are received
- AirbitzType:Private
Industry:Bitcoin
Founders:Paul Puey, Scott Morgan, Tim Horton, William Swanson, and Damian Cutillo
Headquarters:San Diego, CA
Services:Bitcoin wallet, merchant directory
Website:Airbitz.co
Airbitz is a bitcoin wallet provider and merchant directory headquartered in San Diego, CA founded by Paul Puey, Scott Morgan, Tim Horton, William Swanson, and Damian Cutillo.In January 2015 they received $25,000 from the Plug N Play Tech Center and joined their accelerator program.In July 2015, Airbitz raised $450,000 from venture capital firm Block26.
Advocacy
CEO of Airbitz, Paul Puey speaks regularly at bitcoin industry events.He has given talks in New Zealand, San Francisco, Denver, LA, and Australia.He talks about and advocates for a decentralized future of bitcoin.
ProductsAirbitz’s primary product is a decentralized bitcoin wallet that allows users to store and transact in bitcoin.An Airbitz wallet was the first to ever send a bitcoin transaction in Cuba.They invented the use of Bluetooth low energy (BLE) for bitcoin transactions. They also invented one-touch 2-factor authentication.
- Company
- Wirex — the new and improved hybrid personal banking solution. We are the first company to combine the speed and flexibility of blockchain finance with the acceptance of traditional currency — all in one account. We offer secure bitcoin wallets linked to Visa and MasterCard debit cards, supported by online and mobile applications.
At Wirex, we believe that it is time to change the outdated, expensive and often frustrating financial infrastructure. We have succeeded in integrating the best peer-to-peer transfer and global payments technologies — so simple, our service works with just a few clicks. We’ve worked hard to enhance security, protect privacy, and improve customer experience, so you can enjoy unrivalled remittance and personal banking services.
At Wirex, we are constantly innovating and improving our products and services to suit your needs. Let us drive your money to the future of banking.