Airbnb Hires a Blockchain Team in Possible Identity PlayAirbnb, the company that disrupted the hospitality industry as Uber did to taxis, is sidling up to the fintech space.
The San Francisco company, which allows people to rent spare rooms in their homes to travelers, has "acqui-hired" a team of bitcoin and blockchain experts from the micropayments startup ChangeCoin. Airbnb, whose user base passed 17 million last summer, is bringing over the majority of ChangeCoin’s staff to join its engineering team and work on building its ...
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