Coinsecure aims to go beyond bitcoin, add more cryptocurrencies like ethereum
Delhi-based Coinsecure offers bitcoin wallet, exchange, trading and merchant services along with other blockchain-based services
In early 2011, when bitcoin was a two-year-old concept, Benson Samuel and Mohit Kalra were enthralled by the possibilities the cryptocurrency held. Benson (37), who was working with a technology company, came to know about the concept and immediately started studying about it. On further research, he realised that the price at which bitcoin was exchanged in India was easily a 40-50 percent premium in comparison with the international exchanges.
The following year, he met Mohit (26) through a bitcoin forum. Mohit was one of the largest bitcoin miners at that time. The duo felt an instant synergy and decided to resolve issues relating to bitcoins in India. Thus, Coinsecure was born in 2014.
Bitcoin was created in 2009 and was traded at $28 in 2012. Today, it is worth $4805.
Started with an aim to ‘connect India to bitcoin,’ Coinsecure was set up as an algorithmic trading platform for bitcoin. In other words, it allows people to buy and sell bitcoin in Indian currency and vice -versa.
“We wanted to ensure that we built a secure platform for our users, where there was transparency and fair pricing, providing adequate liquidity to the market,” Benson says.
Know your customer
The exchange allows users to sign up and complete their KYC (Know Your Customer) process. Once their account is verified by the compliance team, it allows users to deposit funds and start trading on the platform.
The company has its head office in Delhi and the research and development division in Bengaluru. It has 35 full-time employees and plans to expand with time. The entire core team at Coinsecure happens to be early adopters of bitcoin, therefore giving them an added advantage in the field.
There is also Ahmedabad-based ZebPay, which operates a bitcoin wallet app and had secured $1 million (around Rs 6.6 crore) in Series-A funding from Claris Lifesciences CMD Arjun Handa, Jindal Worldwide MD Amit Jindal and other unnamed investors.
Apart from these ventures, there are also BTCXIndia, and Bitxoxo, which recently introduced a prepaid bitcoin gift card.
Coinsecure conducts outreach programmes across India to enable schools, colleges and IT/ ITES departments understand the bitcoin technology and implement the same.
In the future, it aims to release a payment gateway for the users. This will enable users to make INR deposits and withdrawals anytime (rather than the current working hours limit).
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