| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.10.2019 | Top 3 Decentralized Marketplaces That You Have to Try out if You Love Crypto | Since the birth of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, we’ve seen marketplaces springing up all over the globe that let users pay in cryptocurrency. But a few fantastic projects have taken this technology one step further. There are... |
| 06.09.2019 | Are Businesses Turning to Bitcoin in a Dangerous Way Following the Hong Kong Protests? | Hong Kong is currently at the epicenter of a gargantuan political furor over personal lives being invaded by the government without the permission of the citizens. Demonstrations have been tumbling on for weeks, turning violent only very re... |
| 21.07.2019 | Is Web 3.0 the next lifestyle brand? | I am starting to wonder if choosing a blockchain or a Web 3.0 approach is as much a lifestyle choice as a technological choice.
Leaving aside the naming challenge (are we calling this blockchain, crypto, or Web 3.0?), I think it represents ... |
| 21.07.2019 | Is Web 3.0 the next lifestyle brand? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
I am starting to wonder if choosing a blockchain ... |
| 25.06.2018 | Andreessen Horowitz has a new crypto fund — and its first female general partner is running it with Chris Dixon | Silicon Valley powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has some big, and bigger, news today. First, it closed a dedicated crypto fund late last week from a subset of its limited partners, who’ve provided the firm with $300 million in capital ... |
| 30.03.2018 | New Money: The 10 Top D.C. Area Startups That Raised Funding in March | In covering the D.C. innovation economy comes the inevitable: funding news. Trust us, there's a lot of it floating around the D.C. metro area, and we cover it everyday in our daily newsletter, The Beat. Here's a roundup of all of the major ... |
| 14.03.2018 | OB1 Raises $5M in Series A Financing | OB1, the Washington, D.C.–based company building decentralized marketplace OpenBazaar, raised $5m in series A funding.
The round was led by OMERS Ventures, with participation from Bitmain, Digital Currency Group, BlueYard Capital, Union Squ... |
| 14.03.2018 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, March 14 | 5 Qs WITH A DEALMAKER
Jillian Manus, a managing partner at Structure Capital and a judge on “The Pitch” podcast, had a circuitous path to venture capital.
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“I was in a domest... |
| 08.03.2018 | Top ICOs to Watch in 2018 | Back in January, we wrote about the top 10 cryptocurrency startups to watch in 2018. A lot has changed since then. As of the time of March 2018, there are over 1400 ICOs issued by startups with a value of over $40 billion. Startups have bee... |
| 05.12.2017 | Token Summit Surprise: OpenBazaar to Launch New Coin | "Over the last six months, things have changed a lot, I don't think it makes any sense for us to be bitcoin only."
That's according to Brian Hoffman, CEO of OB1, the development company behind the decentralized e-commerce protocol... |
| 01.11.2017 | A More User-Friendly Bitcoin Market? OpenBazaar Version 2.0 Is Here | The startup behind OpenBazaar has released version 2.0 of its popular bitcoin-powered marketplace.
First launched in 2014, the software update marks a milestone for startup OB1, which bills its product as a decentralized eBay or Shopify for... |
| 11.09.2017 | Tor and More: Bitcoin Market OpenBazaar Adds Features in 2.0 Beta Release | The team behind the open-source, bitcoin-powered marketplace OpenBazaar has published the beta version of its forthcoming 2.0 release.
The launch, announced over the weekend, delivers a number of additions that developers outlined back in F... |
| 09.08.2017 | Think crypto tokens aren’t ready for prime time? Overstock and Fidelity beg to differ | One of the questions I get most often about Bitcoin or any other crypto asset is, “Okay, but what can you actually BUY with it?” Sure, for a while you could go to Vaultoro and buy some gold or go on OpenBazaar and order something, but these... |
| 16.02.2017 | 4 Ways to Get Bitcoin Without Spending Any Money | - |
| 18.01.2017 | The Blockchain is Still Waiting for Its Web. Here's a Blueprint | William Mougayar is the author of "The Business Blockchain" and a board advisor to, and investor in, various blockchain projects and startups (see: disclosures).
In this opinion piece, Mougayar examines what it would take to intro... |
| 13.12.2016 | Bitcoin-Powered Marketplace OpenBazaar Raises $3 Million | The developers behind OpenBazaar, the open-source marketplace protocol powered by bitcoin, have raised $3m in new funding.
The new round was led by BlueYard, a Berlin-based VC fund with a focus on early-stage startups that has strongly indi... |
| 08.12.2016 | Decentralized Marketplace OpenBazaar to Release Version 2.0 | OpenBazaar, a decentralized peer-to-peer e-commerce portal for goods and service trading using Bitcoin, will soon release an updated version 2.0 that further improve users’ privacy and security on the internet.
The latest version will allow... |
| 24.10.2016 | ‘It’s almost like the beginning of the internet’: Experts on the promise of blockchain | In what felt like a surprising twist to a blockchain panel last week, every panelist emphasized that blockchain, the buzzed-about public ledger system, was not a universal solution to all recordkeeping or data issues. Or, as panelist Tone V... |
| 07.06.2016 | Blockchain/Bitcoin in Vietnam – A short Overview | As a country where cash is still the king of currency, the current state of implementation of Blockchain technology solutions in Vietnam is still very new. A few Vietnam fintech startups have been working on providing basic infrastructure l... |
| 09.04.2016 | Video Of The Week: Q&A With Brian Hoffman of Open Bazaar | Our portfolio company OB1 launched the Open Bazaar p2p decentralized marketplace protocol recently. Here’s a video where OB1 founder Brian Hoffman explains what Open Bazaar is and why they built it. |
| 30.01.2016 | Steal This Show S01E05: P2P takes on Ebay | In this episode we’re joined by Washington Sanchez, co-founder of P2P marketplace Open Bazaar, and Angel Leon, founder of popular torrent client Frostwire and OpenBazaar contributor.
This week we discuss Netflix and the use of VPNs by its c... |
| 12.06.2015 | Future Friday: OpenBazaar and OB1 | Yesterday our portfolio company OB1 announced a seed round led by USV, Andreessen Horowitz and William Mougayar.
From the OB1 blog post:
OpenBazaar will always be open source and MIT licensed. As a global software community, we’ve intention... |
| 11.06.2015 | OpenBazaar Raises $1 Million for Decentralised Marketplace | The developers of OpenBazaar, the open-source decentralized marketplace protocol, have received $1m in seed funding.
The project received backing from venture firms Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures, and angel investor and board... |
| 18.01.2015 | After The Social Web, Here Comes The Trust Web | David Cohen Contributor
William Mougayar Contributor
Editor’s note: David Cohen is the founder and Managing Partner of Techstars, the #1 ranked Internet startup accelerator in the world. William Mougayar is an entrepreneur turned angel inve... |
| 08.12.2014 | Bitmarkets Launches Decentralised Bitcoin Marketplace With Tor Support | A new decentralised marketplace called Bitmarkets has launched, with privacy-preserving features, a novel escrow system and a requirement for vendors and customers to transact in bitcoin.
Bitmarkets is designed to operate over anonymity-pre... |
| - | O que as blockchains já fazem (e o que ainda podem fazer) por nós | * Por Olle Widén
Para quem não é da geração Spotify, o conceito de conexão ponto a ponto ou peer-to-peer, soa um tanto familiar. Nos anos 1990 usei o Napster e o Bit Torrent para baixar músicas e filmes, tendo acesso às últimas novidades e ... |
| - | Кого убьет блокчейн: 4 сферы малого бизнеса, которые скоро исчезнут | Искусственный интеллект и технология цепочки блоков не только сделают участников транзакций равноправными и убьют посредников, но и ликвидируют ряд офисных должностей и перевернут бизнес-модели многих компаний. Вот четыре области малого биз... |
