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Gliph Raises $200,000 To Expand Secure Messaging And Bitcoin Features

Gliph, a secure messaging application with bitcoin integration, announced today that they recently secured $200,000 in funding, led by Tim Draper. Gliph is one of seven companies with a heavy focus on bitcoin in the latest Boost.vc Accelerator class. Boost’s Demo Day is today, offering companies from the program an opportunity to present to an audience of investors and press. Gliph began in early 2012 as an encrypted messaging app, focused on securing communications across iPhone, Android and web users, protecting all messages with SSL and/or AES-256 encryption. The service also offers the ability to reveal only as much personal …

Sep 19, 2013 Posted by Jonathan Stacke In Businesses, News, Security, Wallets Tagged AES, Coinbase, Demo Day, SSL, transaction, wallet Comments 2

Bitcoin Foundation Awards Q2 Grant To Coinpunk: An Open Source, Self-Hosted Wallet Service

In the world of bitcoin wallets, users have historically had to prioritize between ease of use, accessibility, and security. That decision may be easier now, thanks to the Bitcoin Foundation’s grant to Coinpunk, an open source, self-hosted wallet. Such a solution would allow users to access their bitcoin wallet via the web, without the counterparty risk of an external service to manage the process. The grant to Coinpunk marks the Bitcoin Foundation’s third allocation since announcing the program in December 2012. This grant falls in line with the goals expressed by Executive Chairman emeritus Peter Vessenes – to support projects that …

Aug 3, 2013 Posted by Jonathan Stacke In News, Wallets Tagged Bitcoin Foundation, Coinbase, software, technical, wallet Comments 0

Coinbase Makes Instant Bitcoin Purchases Possible With Connected Bank Accounts

Coinbase is a San Francisco, USA based company that provides bitcoin wallet and merchant services. They currently support 180,000 customers and have raised over $6M in funding from large name investors including Y Combinator, SV Angel, Start Fund, Union Square Ventures, and Ribbit Capital, among several others. Today Coinbase announced the ability to instantly purchase bitcoins from connected bank account for a 1% fee. Coinbase has been gradually increasing the purchasing abilities of its users over the last year. To many’s chagrin, they had originally capped the total pool of available BTC for all customers to limit bitcoin purchases. Many early users …

Jul 12, 2013 Posted by Phillip Archer In Businesses, News Tagged Account Verification, Coinbase, KYC, Ribbit Capital, Start Fund, transaction, Union Square Ventures, US, USA Comments 2

WARNING: Coinbase publicly publishes names and emails

Many Coinbase.com users have been receiving phishing attacks – emails claiming to be from Coinbase that request personal information. Coinbase’s blog public acknowledged this problem yesterday: What is more disturbing is how easy it is to retrieve personal information from people using Coinbase accounts. A quick google search of the coinbase checkout demonstrates how easy this to find. https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site:https://coinbase.com/checkouts/ Clicking one of the results will provide transaction information including email accounts, phone numbers, and sometimes even personal addresses. We would highly recommend not using Coinbase until this issue is resolved. …

Apr 5, 2013 Posted by Phillip Archer In News, Security Tagged Bitcoin, Coinbase, Google, Personally identifiable information, Phishing, WARNING Comments 1