Bitcoin.com
Website centred on Bitcoin commerce. Used to be Bitcoin (BTC), but since transaction fee's went up, is now only using Bitcoin Cash (BCH).
Basics
- Also a mining pool running Bitcoin Unlimited
- From this post (9-2019) by Bitcoin.com itself:
"History: Bitcoin.com’s mining pool has been operational for three years, having launched on Sept. 21, 2016, with a mandate to push for bigger blocks. From day one, the Bitcoin.com pool could process blocks of up to 16MB, but would only mine 1MB at the time as that was all BTC’s consensus rules would accept. Today. Bitcoin.com offers hardware and cloud mining, with the latter manifesting as contracts ranging from six months to two years. Bitcoin.com provides its own mobile monitoring software, while the Bitcoin.com Wallet is a major product in its own right with over 4.7 million installs.
Trivia: Bitcoin.com mined the first BCH ABC block on Nov. 15, 2018 following the split with SV."
- Runs Local.Bitcoin.com, a P2P marketplace to buy BCH.
- Will launch Exchange.Bitcoin.com on 2-9-2019
- Has launched the Verse DEX (8-12-2022), with its own VERSE token:
"Bitcoin.com announced completion of the pre-sale of its rewards and utility token VERSE, where 16% of the total supply was purchased for $50 million. Strategic buyers in the pre-sale of Bitcoin.com’s VERSE token include [Chainlink], Digital Strategies, Blockchain.com, Kucoin Ventures, Redwood City Ventures, Boostx Ventures, and Poly Network. The VERSE token will provide utility in Bitcoin.com’s ecosystem, which includes over 35 million self-custody wallets created in its multi-chain DeFi-ready mobile app, and an award-winning news portal with over 2.5 million monthly readers."
Team, investments, etc.
- Ver, Roger; Chairman
- Dennis Jarvis; CEO, formerly of Apple and Rakuten (since 21-5-2020)
- Stefan Rust; ex-CEO (since 8-2019 until 3-4-2020)
- Mate Tokay, ex-COO and exCEO (one month)
- Emil Oldenburg, CTO
Funding
- "Bitcoin.com has announced the acquisition of blockchain startup O3 Labs, the Tokyo-based software company that specializes in developing gateways to the digital economy."
- Roger Ver announced (20-11-2019) a $200M BCH Ecosystem Fund
- Initial backer (22-1-2020) of the IFP for BCH
- Illuvium; was part of a $5M investment round (12-3-2021).
- Raises $33.6 million in private token sale (5-5-2022), and said a Public sale will will take place in June.
Partnerships
- Has a mining Partnership With Bit Mining. Bit Mining will redirect its own hashpower to Bitcoin.com’s mining pool to help spread the adoption of cyptocurrencies.
- Is a partner with Alchemy, according to their website (20-4-2020).
