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Quest Nutrition was founded in 2010 in El Segundo, California, by Tom Bilyeu, Mike Osborn, and Ron Penna, who had recently sold their data loss prevention software company Awareness Technologies. [1] [2] Inspired in part by obesity in Bilyeu's family, Quest aimed to create protein bars and other high-protein snacks with no added sugar. [3]
BitConnect was described as an open source, all-in-one bitcoin and crypto community platform but was later discovered to be a Ponzi scheme. 2018 KodakCoin: Kodak and WENN Digital Ethash [84] KodakCoin is a "photographer-centric" blockchain cryptocurrency used for payments for licensing photographs. Petro: Venezuelan Government: onixCoin [85 ...
A cryptocurrency, crypto-currency, or colloquially, crypto, is a digital currency designed to work through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it.
In 2021, then-national deputy Javier Milei recommended a crypto platform called CoinX that promised, through automated trading algorithms, to provide high returns of up to 8% per month. CoinX would end up being reported for fraud.
[59] [60] In December 2024, bitcoin price reached $100,000 for the first time, as US president-elect Donald Trump promised to make the US the "crypto capital of the planet" and to stockpile bitcoin. [61] The same month, BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, recommended investors to allocate up to 2% of their portfolio to bitcoin. [62]
Cryptopia was an international cryptocurrency exchange based in Christchurch, New Zealand.Founded in 2014 by Rob Dawson and Adam Clark, it was among the earliest cryptocurrency services started in the country, and was responsible for launching the first stablecoin pegged to the New Zealand dollar.
In January 2015, the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex enabled trading of Tether on their platform. In 2018, Phil Potter, the chief strategy officer for Bitfinex, left the company after the Paradise Papers leaks in November 2017 named Bitfinex officials Philip Potter and Giancarlo Devasini as responsible for setting up Tether Holdings Limited in the British Virgin Islands in 2014.
Kraken (legally named Payward, Inc.) is a United States–based cryptocurrency exchange, founded in 2011.It was one of the first bitcoin exchanges to be listed on Bloomberg Terminal [citation needed] The company has been the subject of several regulatory investigations since 2018, and has agreed to cumulative fines of over $30 million. [4]