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Satoshi Nakamoto

Satoshi Nakamoto is inventor of the Bitcoin protocol, publishing a paper outlining it via the Cryptography Mailing List on November, 1 2008. He then released the first version of the Bitcoin software client in 2009 and participated with others on the project via mailing lists until he finally began to fade from the community toward […] from Search Results for “ripple” – CoinDesk https://ift.tt/2XGrwrl
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Michael Terpin

Michael Terpin is an American investor, entrepreneur and public relations (PR) agency manager. Terpin in 2013 co-founded BitAngels, an investment network for blockchain technology startups, and Transform Group, a PR firm for the digital currency industry, in 2014.  Launched in 2013 by David Johnston, Michael Terpin and Sam Onat Yilmaz, BitAngels was the first angel […] from Search Results for “ripple” – CoinDesk https://ift.tt/2Ya3SCP
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Chris Larsen

Chris Larsen, born in 1960, is an American business executive, angel investor and the co-founder and former CEO of OpenCoin, which later rebranded to Ripple. Ripple Labs developed their own blockchain technology, the XRP ledger, to improve cross-border payments between various banking systems in the world. The network of financial institutions using all of Ripple’s […] from Search Results for “ripple” – CoinDesk https://ift.tt/30fpsIF
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Stellar

Stellar is a blockchain-based payment protocol launched in 2014 by Jed McCaleb – founder of Mt. Gox and co-founder of Ripple – and lawyer Joyce Kim. Originally, stellar aimed to create a network of microfinance institutions in developing nations and to serve the unbanked. It later shifted toward focusing on connecting established financial firms to […] from Search Results for “ripple” – CoinDesk https://ift.tt/2YetZbJ
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Mt.Gox

Launched in 2010 Mt. Gox was the world’s largest bitcoin exchange until its demise in 2014. By 2013, the Japan-based exchange was handling 70 percent of all bitcoin trades worldwide, but collapsed in 2014 after it was revealed that it had lost 744,408 of its customers’ bitcoins and 100,000 of its own bitcoins, amounting to […] from Search Results for “ripple” – CoinDesk https://ift.tt/2YcpZIx
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Pantera Capital

Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on blockchain technology and cryptocurrency companies. Based in Menlo Park, CA, Pantera was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead and originally focused on global macro hedge fund investments. The firm shifted its focus to the blockchain industry in 2013, and was at that time backed by major […] from Search Results for “ripple” – CoinDesk https://ift.tt/378RXZW
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Blockchain Capital

Founded in 2013 by Bart Stephens, Bradford Stephens and Brock Pierce, Blockchain Capital is one of the oldest venture capital firms in the blockchain industry. General Partner Spencer Bogart joined the firm in 2017. Formerly known as Crypto Currency Partners, Blockchain Capital has invested in over 55 equities and tokens, including Abra, Kin, 0x, LedgerX, Ripple […] from Search Results for “ripple” – CoinDesk https://ift.tt/2XJdIwu
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Barry Silbert

Barry Silbert is the founder of venture firm Digital Currency Group (DCG), crypto asset manager Grayscale Investments and illiquid assets marketplace SecondMarket. Silbert founded SecondMarket in 2004, where he created the Bitcoin Investment Trust, wholly devoted to bitcoin and the first investment vehicle of its kind in the US. The fund received a $2 million […] from Search Results for “ripple” – CoinDesk https://ift.tt/2Ukxyfr
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XRP

Created in 2014, XRP is the native asset of the XRP ledger, developed by Ripple Labs, that uses blockchain technology to improve cross-border payments.  XRP is used on xRapid to provide liquidity in cross-border payments that involve illiquid trading pairs. 100 billion tokens were created at the project’s launch in 2012. 80 billion was held […] from Search Results for “ripple” – CoinDesk https://ift.tt/2UB0CiX
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Ripple Labs

Originally OpenCoin Inc, Ripple Labs is the San Francisco company behind the XRP ledger and Ripple payments network. Founded in 2012 by Chris Larsen, Jed McCaleb, and Arthur Britto, it is currently led by CEO Brad Garlinghouse. Ripple Labs can trace its origins back to Ripplepay, a peer-to-peer payment network created in 2004 by Ryan […] from Search Results for “ripple” – CoinDesk https://ift.tt/3dJ8QNc
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