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BTCS (company)

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Type of site
  
Public

Website
  
www.btcs.com

Founded
  
20 June 2013

Traded as
  
OTCQB: BTCS

Headquarters
  
Virginia, United States

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Key people
  
Charles Allen (CEO) Michal Handerhan (COO) Tim Sidie (Lead Engineer)

Industry
  
Transaction Verification Services Bitcoin mining E-commerce

Stock price
  
BTCSD (OTCMKTS) US$ 0.17 +0.03 (+17.86%)24 Feb, 4:00 PM GMT-5 - Disclaimer

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BTCS, Inc. (also called Bitcoin Shop, Inc.) is a publicly traded company based in the US, whose stated line of business is development of applications related to blockchain databases and digital currencies.

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In April 2015, according to company releases, its shares were valued at 0.30 USD or more. In July 2016, the price had dropped to 0.001 USD.

Services

According to company material, their services and products could possibly include:

  • A low-cost bitcoin transaction verification (bitcoin mining) services business. In January 2015, BTCS announced finalizing a two-year lease for an 83,000 square foot facility.
  • An e-commerce marketplace accepting bitcoin, litecoin, dogecoin, and other cryptocurrencies. In its beta version, the marketplace claimed to offer over 250,000 curated products, featuring a so-called "Intelligent Shopping Engine" to find competitive prices on products from over 250 retailers.
  • A bitcoin wallet that uses 2-of-3 cryptographic multisignatures to securely store the user's bitcoin keys. The wallet is built on BitVault's Gem’s technology and operates in cooperation with Authy, a provider of two-factor authentication. A beta version was claimed to be available, by invitation only.

    • Investments

    BTCS claims to have partnered with and invested in several digital currency companies, including GoCoin LLC, Bitvault Inc. and Spondoolies Tech Ltd.

    References

    BTCS (company) Wikipedia
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