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Title: ItBit Nets $25 Million, Launches NYDFS-Approved Bitcoin Exchange
Post by: Coinbuddy on May 08, 2015, 04:02:39 AM
New York bitcoin exchange itBit has closed $25m in Series A fundraising.

The round drew support from a pool of new and existing sources including RRE Ventures, Liberty City Ventures and investor Jay W Jordan II. Raptor Capital Management chairman James Pallotta also participated in the round.

ItBit further confirmed the addition of three new members to its board of directors: former Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation chairperson Sheila Bair; former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley; and former Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) chairman Robert Herz.

SOURCE: http://www.coindesk.com/itbit-25-million-series-a/


Title: Re: ItBit Nets $25 Million, Launches NYDFS-Approved Bitcoin Exchange
Post by: ChuckBuck on May 08, 2015, 05:02:30 PM
Bullish news.  Between ItBit and GBTC launching this week, has been a positive news/positive momentum week.

Just wait til COIN ETF and Gemini make it out the gate!   8)


Title: Re: ItBit Nets $25 Million, Launches NYDFS-Approved Bitcoin Exchange
Post by: Zeroxal on May 08, 2015, 05:24:14 PM
Isnt itBit the first company in the US to actually have an official lincense to exchange bitcoin?


Title: Re: ItBit Nets $25 Million, Launches NYDFS-Approved Bitcoin Exchange
Post by: Nagle on May 08, 2015, 07:43:19 PM
Isnt itBit the first company in the US to actually have an official lincense to exchange bitcoin?
Yes.

Now read their terms.

* Price information is delayed, unless you pay them to be a "market maker"
* It takes 3 to 30 days to get cash out.
* You can't sue them. Disagreements have to be arbitrated in Singapore.
* Bitcoins on deposit are not insured. Only cash.

They tell you up front how they're going to screw you. That's regulatory compliance.


Title: Re: ItBit Nets $25 Million, Launches NYDFS-Approved Bitcoin Exchange
Post by: manselr on May 08, 2015, 08:05:04 PM
Isnt itBit the first company in the US to actually have an official lincense to exchange bitcoin?
Yes.

Now read their terms.

* Price information is delayed, unless you pay them to be a "market maker"
* It takes 3 to 30 days to get cash out.
* You can't sue them. Disagreements have to be arbitrated in Singapore.
* Bitcoins on deposit are not insured. Only cash.

They tell you up front how they're going to screw you. That's regulatory compliance.
How does this exchange compare to the up and coming gemini exchange by the Winklevoss brothers? im waiting fr a perfect exchange to appear to do some day trading, as I can trust any of the current ones to leave both fiat and BTC on there to play with.


Title: Re: ItBit Nets $25 Million, Launches NYDFS-Approved Bitcoin Exchange
Post by: BTC_Superman on May 12, 2015, 03:04:32 PM
Wait some more months for a positive result of Bitcoin exchange with ItBit.


Title: Re: ItBit Nets $25 Million, Launches NYDFS-Approved Bitcoin Exchange
Post by: Gleb Gamow on May 12, 2015, 07:32:03 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bradley

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Bradley is the author of seven non-fiction books, most recently We Can All Do Better, and hosts a weekly radio show, American Voices, on Sirius Satellite Radio. He is a corporate director of Starbucks and a partner at investment bank Allen & Company in New York City.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_%26_Company

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Allen & Co. was one of ten underwriters for the Google initial public offering in 2004, and were announced to have been retained in January 2011 to assist the ownership of the New York Mets in obtaining a strategic partner (although such a transaction was not ultimately consummated). Allen & Co. was one of seven underwriters on the initial public offering of Twitter Inc. in November 2013.

Allen & Co. was also the adviser of Facebook in its $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp in February 2014.