Tag: BlockOne

Billionaire Crypto Bull Thiel’s Block.one Seed Shares Reap 6,500% Profit

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By CCN: Block.one is returning jaw-dropping profits to its earliest investors like Peter Thiel. It’s a stock buyback of epic speed and proportions. In only three years the blockchain startup is buying back shares sold in a seed round of funding in 2017. The ROI for anyone who cashes out will be as much as 6,567%. Where did Block.one come up with all that money in so little time? It executed the biggest ICO in cryptocurrency history. The company raised $4 billion over a year-long token sale of EOS coins…

Galaxy Digital and Block.One Lead $30 Million Funding Round for US Disruptor Bank

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Cryptocurrency-focused merchant bank Galaxy Digital and Block.One have led a $30 million Series A investment round in U.S. neo-banking platform Good Money. The news was confirmed by a press release Dec. 10. Aiming to balance user ownership with part donation of profits and equity, Good Money provides banking services and a handful of associated financial instruments to U.S. account holders. The investment came mostly via Galaxy and Block.One’s joint Galaxy EOS VC fund, one of several funds under the Block.One umbrella. “Modern banking is a primary driver of so many…

Crypto Daily News | Block.one Funding, IBM Blockchain, & Boeing Planes

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In today’s edition of Crypto Daily News, we will cover Block.one receiving funding from top execs at PayPal and Bitmain, IBM teaming up with Columbia to launch a Blockchain Research Center, and the airplane maker, Boeing, using blockchain technology. Crypto Daily News: June 17th, 2018 Block.one Gets Funding EOS developer Block.one has secured investments from the crypto-mining billionaire Jihan Wu of Bitmain, and the billionaire PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Block.one made the official announcement via a press release on its website yesterday. Block.one’s CEO, Brendan Blumer, made a statement about the…

EOS Developer Block.One Secures Investments from PayPal’s Peter Thiel, Bitmain’s Jihan Wu

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EOS developer Block.one has secured investments from billionaire PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and crypto mining hardware billionaire Jihan Wu of Bitmain, according to an official announcement today, July 16. Block.one is the creator of the EOSIO software, a blockchain protocol that aims to support decentralized apps (dApps) on an industrial scale. The protocol’s native cryptocurrency EOS is currently ranked fifth in the world with a market capitalization of $7.1 bln.   Other notable co-investors of Block.one’s latest funding round –– of which the exact total is yet to be revealed ––…

Block.One Is Taking a Bigger Role With EOS (And That’s a Big Deal)

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Block.One has decided to start voting with its hoard of EOS tokens. Announced last week, the decision finds the startup that created the EOS software, now powered by the fifth most valuable cryptocurrency, breaking with precedent in a move that may have come as a surprise to those following the project’s decentralized launch. That’s because since going live on June 14, the company has largely declined to exercise its influence over the code, preferring to encourage its users to unite, even in sometimes messy decision-making. And there’s a good reason…