How our CEO Simon Dixon got into Bitcoin

In this video Simon Dixon, CEO of BnkToTheFuture, tells us how he got into Bitcoin, digging further into inconsistencies of modern monetary system and explaining how fast crypto community grew

“This Week in Bitcoin” with Adam Meister featuring Simon Dixon

Once again Adam and Simon meet to discuss Bitcoin crash, Bitcoin Cash, Crypto Exchange Wars and whole situation in crypto ecosphere. Please enjoy this hour and a quarter talk between a famous youtuber and CEO of BnkToTheFuture, Simon Dixon!

Coinpayments live on BnkToTheFuture for qualifying investors

Coinpayments – Merchant Processor with over 2m users, 1,100 supported crypto currencies & $1bn transacted.

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FEATURED PITCH

Description: Founded in 2013, Coinpayments is a digital currency payments solution allowing businesses to accept Bitcoin and hundreds of altcoins through easy to use plugins, APIs and Point of Sale (POS) interfaces. With over 2 million businesses and users in 182 countries, Coinpayments is the most comprehensive online multi-currency platform.

Coinpayments was built to address 2 major problems facing cryptocurrency users:

Altcoin payment processing was non-existent and didn’t allow merchants the choice to instantly accept currencies with one checkout.

Altcoin storage was too complicated for everyday users and created a barrier to entry for new investors, customers and businesses.

Solutions:

Fiat settlement – Allows businesses to settle to fiat and avoid crypto price volatility.

On-Platform Exchange – Simplified conversions, optional advanced trading built-in.

User Controlled Private Keys – Users control their private keys while having the convenience of centralized key storage.

Decentralized Marketplace – Bringing business and consumers together in a decentralized, peer-to-peer marketplace.

Mobile app – Secure solution for and transacting value.

Payment Features:

GAP600 Instant Confirmations – CoinPayments supports GAP600 Instant Confirmations making Bitcoin payments faster than ever before.

Vault – Protect your coins in the vault, requiring a time you specify before being able to spend them.

Fiat Settlements – United States and Euro merchants now have fiat settlements directly to their bank accounts

Point of Sale (POS) – Simple interface for in person transactions

Air Drops – CoinPayments provides air drops of new coins and tokens to our users so everyone benefits.

Mobile Apps – Access your account, accept payments in person and convert coins anywhere with our mobile apps for Android and iOS

Auto Coin Conversion – Auto convert for some of our coins, saving you the trouble of moving funds, wasting time and fees.

Multi-Coin Wallet – Optionally store your coins in our secure online wallet.

Businesses using Coinpayments:

MindGeek

WikiLeaks

Overstock

NordVPN

Bnk To The Future

Clients and Partners:

Bnk To The Future

ShapeShift

Changelly

ICO Box

Tokeny

Shopify

Magento

Overstock

Woo Commerce

Team:

Alex Alexandrov (CEO)

Jason Butcher (COO)

PITCH TYPE: EQUITY

EQUITY ON OFFER: 5%

MINIMUM INVESTMENT AMOUNT: $1,000

TOTAL INVESTMENT GOAL: $10,000,000

This deal is on a first come, first serve basis. For full details and to make a purchase click here.

IN THE NEWS

The hour has finally come when we’re ready to release the first version of BnkToTheFuture.com’s Secondary Market. While this is a limited ‘soft launch’, with an aim to closely monitor the transactions, the work to enhance the experience continues.

Find our more & watch the demo recording here:

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LIVE FOR QUALIFYING INVESTORS – TRUSTI:

Trusti provides compliance solutions for the exchange of regulated securitised assets and is driven by two core products – TrustiCertification™ and TrustiTerminal™ designed to support the security token ecosystem.

Qualifying investors can view their pitch here.

LIVE FOR QUALIFYING INVESTORS – BABB:

BABB aims to become a licensed blockchain bank and is currently preparing applications for banking licences in the UK and Lithuania. They have been given the green light by the Bank of Lithuania to submit their application and aim to do so by the end of 2018. An application to the UK will follow accordingly

Qualifying investors can view the pitch and invest here.

LIVE FOR QUALIFYING INVESTORS – BYTE FEDERAL:

Byte Federal is a Fincen registered money service business (MSB) that has deployed 64 crypto ATM machines across 10 US states with their own hardware and software systems, with a prominent lead investor in the crypto sector.

Byte Federal is honored to announce the addition of John W. Popeo to our Board of Directors!

Read the full announcement here.

Qualifying investors can view the pitch and invest here.

CONGRATULATIONS TO RSK:

After the token generation event took place, the exclusive Priority Access Deal (PAD) – RSK opened to BFT token holders and sold 4,398,802 US Dollars worth of RIF tokens. Just like we did with our Telegram token sale allocation, we provided the RSK PAD only to those who have given the most to the BFT community and notified them exclusively by email.

Find our more about the RSK Priority Access Deal here.

BITSTAMP INVESTORS CASH IN:

Bitstamp – one of the most successful early equity investment rounds on our Online Investment Platform, gave our investors a nice exit and all funds have been distributed to their BF accounts.

BETA LAUNCH – SECONDARY MARKET:

The hour has finally come where we released our first version of BnkToTheFuture.com’s Secondary Market. While this is a limited ‘soft launch’ with an aim to closely monitor the transactions, the work to enhance the experience continues

OVER US$636,800,000 INVESTED:

We have now passed $636,800,000 invested in funding rounds listed on our Online Investment Platform. We thank every investor who have contributed to an investment in the Future of Finance and Technology.

More details can be found on our home page

MORE RETURNS:

We have now paid our Bnk To The Future Professional Investor Members over 943,000 dividends and over $17,000,000 has been returned through our dividend paying funds

MORE FINANCIAL INNOVATIONS:

If you are involved in Financial Innovation & Technology then we would love to receive your application and explore if you can raise investment with us. Whether you have an ICO / Token Sale, equity or other offering, 98% of companies that have listed on our Online Investment Platform so far have raised at least their minimum funding goal.

You can make a quick application for finance here and we will follow up.

BFT TOKEN HOLDERS ARE GIVEN PRIORITY ACCESS TO ALL DEALS BEFORE ANYONE ELSE. TO RECEIVE PRIORITY ACCESS DEAL (PAD) NEWSLETTERS AND UPDATES, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU MAINTAIN A MINIMUM BALANCE OF 10,000 BFT ON YOUR BNKTOTHEFUTURE.COM ACCOUNT TO RECEIVE SUCH IMPORTANT NOTIFICATIONS. CURRENTLY YOU CAN PURCHASE BFT ON EITHER BITFINEX, HUOBI, ETHFINEX, GATE.IO, UPBIT, OR BITTREX.

BFT ON EXCHANGES

BITFINEX:

BF Token (BFT) are listed on Bitfinex, a top 5 digital asset trading platform. DISCLAIMER – BnkToTheFuture is a shareholder in BitFinex and they previously listed equity on our platform.

Visit the website here

HUOBI:

Huobi is one of the largest volume exchange with a Asia-focused (but global) client base has just announced BFT deposits with trading.

Visit the website here

BITTREX:

Bittrex is one of the larger crypto-to-crypto exchanges and the latest exchange to start trading BFT.

Visit the website here

UPBIT

Upbit is a Korean C2C exchange and is launched by the biggest messaging app developer in Korea, Kakao.

Visit the website here

GATE.IO:

Gate.io is a top 20 cryptocurrency exchange that was first to make a trading market in BF Token (BFT).

Visit the website here

Trusti live on BnkToTheFuture for qualifying investors

Trusti – Equity now live for US and Non-US qualifying investors. The crypto compliance app advised by former SEC, IRS and Nasdaq Leadership

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FEATURED PITCH

Type: Equity pitch (available for US and Non-US investors)

Description: Trusti provides compliance solutions for the exchange of regulated, securitised assets, and is driven by two core products – TrustiCertification™ and TrustiTerminal™. Trusti’s systems enable both the certification of accredited wallets for transacting regulated products and the application of state of the art technology to identify fraudulent networks, helping financial institutions avoid engaging in illicit activity.

What They Do:

Transactions: With a Trusti wallet, transactors can have confidence with whom they are sending funds, for either corporate or private entity. Before completing the transaction the sender can check the true details of the recipient, which authorities have certified for each identity in question. Bad news for phishing and other fraudsters, great news for confidence in cryptocurrency transactions.

Regulation: While the tokenization of assets into security tokens is seen as a core future direction of cryptocurrency, almost every legal jurisdiction mandates that persons exchanging such assets be identified and/or accredited by KYC regulation. Trusti allows regulatory bodies to certify the person behind the cryptocurrency wallet, including irrevocably attaching their status and eligibility to the address, finally enabling for the legal exchange of security tokens.

Securities: While the regulated securities infrastructure has shown a willingness to enable the exchange of blockchain assets, its pseudonymous nature has prevented adoption. Trusti enables regulators or exchanges to accredit the identities of those transacting security tokens and certify them for the exchange of assets on a specific platform. Additionally Trusti’s Terminal enables entities to track the source of funds and avoid interacting with money that comes from illicit sources such as hacking, ransom and other criminal endeavours.

Digital Identity Solutions for Every Use-Case:

Individuals: A secure wallet with identity management and protection from phishing attacks. Certification for security token compliance, such as age, licenses and residency.

Data: Identifying parties to the transaction of protected data, such as patient information. Trusti enables to transact data with confidence in the true identity of the recipient.

Enterprise: Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance. Ensuring corporate entities can comply with regulatory authorities by accurately identifying users and their accreditation.

Team:

Zachary Swerdlow (Chief Executive Officer): Zachary’s extensive entrepreneurial background has included corporate acquisitions for one of the United Arab Emirates major royal families, the founding of application marketing firm General Boost and in film production in Hollywood. Additionally Zachary was involved in the leadership of venture capital projects and a number of other technology projects in the US, Europe and Israel. Zachary used this combined experience to transition to blockchain technology in its nascent period, built and contributed to many projects which eventually led to the founding of Trusti, his latest major project.

Ronen Lahat (Chief Technology Officer): Prior to joining Trusti, Ronen held senior development positions at General Boost, Token Label and Cheap Travels. With vast experience in software development, Ronen was one of Israel’s early blockchain developers and has been writing Solidity scripts since soon after the launch of the Ethereum network. Ronen is considered an expert in blockchain development, smart-contract programming, iOS, as well as web development and is presently highly focused on the application of Kdb+ to Trusti’s Terminal. Ronen passes on his experience by lecturing programming classes in Tel Aviv.

Oliver Worth (Chief Operating Officer): Directly prior to joining Trusti, Oliver was head of operations at General Boost, a Tel Aviv based marketing firm. This followed a career in political communications where he worked on messaging, media relations and speech writing with Israel’s political leaders. Oliver served on the Board of Directors of KKL, Israel’s biggest land owner with over $3bn in assets, including on its public relations and human resources sub-committees and has held senior positions in recruitment and fintech startups.

Advisors:

Jeff Pulver (ALCHEMIST VICE CHAIRMAN)

Jeffrey Singer (FORMER NASDAQ CEO)

Marc Powers (FORMER SEC BRANCH CHIEF)

Jeffrey I. Cooper (FMR EXEC DIRECTOR IRS)

Guido Schmitz-Krummacher (BLOCKCHAIN REGULATORY EXPERT)

Sergio Delso (HEAD OF FINANCIAL CRIME COMPLIANCE – MAJOR BANK)

Phoebe Kao (HEAD OF GLOBAL COMPLIANCE – MAJOR BANK)

Torsten Schaper (HEAD OF REGULATORY ANALYSIS – DEUTSCHE BÖRSE)

Bernard Nicolay (PROFESSOR AT SOLVAY)

John Yoon(HEAD OF OPERATIONS EOS ASIA)

PITCH TYPE: EQUITY

EQUITY ON OFFER: 16.67%

MINIMUM INVESTMENT AMOUNT: $1,000

TOTAL INVESTMENT GOAL: $2,000,000

This deal is on a first come, first serve basis. For full details and to make a purchase click here

IN THE NEWS

Find our more & watch the demo recording here:

Other BnkToTheFuture News

EARLY BITMAS PRESENT – BYTE FEDERAL:

ByteFederal, Inc, a top 10 US Bitcoin ATM company and FinTech service provider reduced their share price from 0.75c to 0.25c to sweeten the deal for investors hit hard by this years crypto bear market. Byte Federal, now operating in 11 states (Washington DC being the latest) just completed its second year AML audit with flying colors.

Qualifying investors can view their pitch here.

LIVE FOR QUALIFYING INVESTORS – BABB:

Qualifying investors can view the pitch and invest here.

CONGRATULATIONS TO SECURITIZE (OVER FUNDED AND CLOSED EARLY):

Securitize aims to be the leading platform for enabling compliant security token offerings, capital formation and liquidity on the blockchain and is a partner of Bnk To The Future in the security token market. Their funding round was so popular we had to close early as our investors co-invested with Coinbase Ventures, OKEX, Ripple Labs and Blockchain Capital amongst others.

More details can be seen on our blog.

CONGRATULATIONS TO RSK:

Find our more about the RSK Priority Access Deal here.

BITSTAMP INVESTORS CASH IN:

Bitstamp, having one of the most successful early equity investment rounds on our Online Investment Platform gave our platform investors a nice exit and all funds have been distributed to their BF accounts.

BLOGS AND INTERVIEWS:

The Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork gave crypto-minds so much food for thought and analytics! In this blog post we share live commentary before and after BCH Hard Fork with both the Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash communities.

You can watch the videos here

OVER US$641,800,000 INVESTED:

We have now passed $641,800,000 invested in funding rounds listed on our Online Investment Platform. We thank every investor who have contributed to an investment in the Future of Finance and Technology

More details can be found on our home page

MORE RETURNS:

We have now paid our Bnk To The Future Professional Investor Members over 943,000 dividends and over $19,000,000 has been returned through our dividend paying funds

MORE INVESTORS:

We are delighted to have over 66,000 (and counting) real active registered BF Professional Investor Members on our Online Investment Platform who are waiting for more Financial Innovation & Technology Investment opportunities to invest in.

Click here to find an opportunity you like.

MORE FINANCIAL INNOVATIONS:

You can make a quick application for finance here and we will follow up.

BFT ON EXCHANGES

BITFINEX:

BF Token (BFT) are listed on Bitfinex, a top 5 digital asset trading platform. DISCLAIMER – BnkToTheFuture is a shareholder in BitFinex and they previously listed equity on our platform.

Visit the website here

HUOBI:

Huobi is one of the largest volume exchange with a Asia-focused (but global) client base has just announced BFT deposits with trading.

Visit the website here

BITTREX:

Bittrex is one of the larger crypto-to-crypto exchanges and the latest exchange to start trading BFT.

Visit the website here

UPBIT

Upbit is a Korean C2C exchange and is launched by the biggest messaging app developer in Korea, Kakao.

Visit the website here

GATE.IO:

Gate.io is a top 20 cryptocurrency exchange that was first to make a trading market in BF Token (BFT).

Visit the website here

Byte Federal live on BnkToTheFuture for qualifying investors

Byte Federal – A Fincen registered money service business with 64 Crypto ATMs deployed across 10 US states with their own hardware, has just launched their equity round exclusively to our qualifying investors

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FEATURED PITCH

Type: Equity pitch (available for US and Non US investors)

Byte Federal is a Fincen registered money service business (MSB) that has deployed 64 crypto ATM machines across 10 US states with their own hardware and software systems, with a prominent lead investor in the crypto sector

What makes Byte Federal unique is that it develops its own ATM hardware and software systems in-house. This allows Byte Federal to customize cryptocurrency services for its users and keep the costs low. As a fully registered FinCen money services business, Byte Federal works closely and proactively with state and federal regulators to ensure growth and adoption.

At present, Byte Federal owns and operates 64 crypto ATM’s with 20 more locations scheduled for deployment. This makes Byte Federal one of the top 10 US Bitcoin ATM networks*.

What makes Byte Federal different:

Fast – Their Bitcoin self service kiosks allow cryptocurrency users to buy and sell Bitcoin within minutes in a secure manner locally.

Innovative – Being in control of their hardware and software system allows them to optimize and continue adding services on the fly, while making our user interface easy to navigate.

Compliant – a FinCen registered Money Service Business (MSB), proactively engages state and federal to make buying Bitcoin not just easy but also safe and secure as possible.

Experienced – Their team has decades of combined experience in software engineering, finance, accounting, compliance, online security and hardware fabrication.

Problems they are trying to solve:

Slow and complicated – online exchanges use overwhelming and complicated procedures. Connecting a bank account can take weeks, with banks sometimes flagging or cancelling the transactions.

Untrustworthy sites – Some exchanges steal user funds or get robbed. Insecure websites pose as being safe and sell private information, credit card or bank information.

Legacy banking hurdles – banks block Bitcoin transactions, or charge heavy foreign currency exchange fees. Credit cards are blocked for crypto purchases. Wire transfers are expensive and slow.

Not intuitive – for the newbies to Bitcoin, navigating a crypto website can be a huge challenge, making it hard to adopt and enter the world of Bitcoin.

Their Solutions:

Fast and secure – user registration takes only a few minutes. Provides a free client portal, with rich and ever-evolving interface to an increase array of crypto services.

Safe and local – their local kiosk makes it ideal to adopt and jump into the crypto world swiftly. Users quickly become loyal fans with their better-than-banking services.

Easy to find – Byte Federal’s fast growing network of proprietary Bitcoin ATMs strive to make easy access to Bitcoin ubiquitous.

Private – helping to tackle and avoid online identity theft, their private and secure ATMs offer beginners and experts friendly method of embracing new financial world of crypto.

Better than banking – adding more crypto and fintech services as well as controlling hardware and software systems allows them to continue to build a futuristic AMT terminal exploring the financial future that Bitcoin started.

Team:

Lee Hansen (CEO) – Lee Hansen is fascinated by mechanical systems! Dating back to his earliest years he was constantly taking things apart and reassembling them as good or better than they were originally. In 1996 after working as a Financial Advisor with Hansen & Hansen for several years he repurposed himself as a Linux Systems Administrator and CCNA. Lee is an expert problem solver with extensive business & technical experience. He has personally designed & implemented hundreds of servers & networks across the US, created web applications with hundreds of thousands of users and has worked with clients ranging from consumers to fortune 500 companies to higher education & research organizations like Lincoln Labs. As an entrepreneur he has launched companies, acquired millions in funding, developed software, authored patents & innovated several robust business solutions.

Lennart Lopin, MA (CTO) – was born in North-Eastern Germany (close to the original V1 rocket test site in Peenemuende), grew up in Vienna, Austria and lives currently in Sarasota, Florida. Coming from an engineering family (his dad is an electrical engineering and machine wizard) his first love was science, in particular Astrophysics – when he ran out of books he attended university lectures at the age of ten studying orbital mechanics. He graduated from university in Germany in 2003 with a master’s degree in Computer Science and a specialization in Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence. His thesis focused on automated text-analysis and summarization. In 2005 his creative chatbot “Prelude” won an international championship in the category of best self-learning system. Mr. Lopin has spent vast amounts of time on various private and public software projects. He discovered Bitcoin in 2011 and has been involved in the Bitcoin ecosystem ever since, including the launch of his own cryptocurrency project “Marscoin”.

Mark W. Paolillo, CPA, CGMA (CFO) – a member of the Venice community since 1972, joined the firm of Hough & Company, P.A., C.P.A.s in 1996. Mr. Paolillo graduated from South Carolina’s Clemson University in 1990, with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. He is a Certified Public Accountant (Florida) and a Certified Global Management Accountant. He holds professional memberships in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants (FICPA), and the Consulting Services Section of the AICPA. He brings a well-rounded skill set to Byte Federal in organizational structure, strategy, negotiations, finance, and compliance.

Lead investor:

CryptoIQ

Advisors:

Charlie Shrem (Bitcoin pioneer, Founder at Bitcoin Foundation, Chief Visionary Officer at Crypto.IQ)

PITCH TYPE: EQUITY

EQUITY ON OFFER: 12%

MINIMUM INVESTMENT AMOUNT: US$1,000

TOTAL INVESTMENT GOAL: $3,000,000

This deal is on a first come, first serve basis. For full details and to make a purchase click here.

IN THE NEWS

On the day of the Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork, whilst taking your questions on our fourth Ask Me Anything (AMA) session, we put aside the drama and performed the first demo of our long awaited secondary market, for the most valuable Bitcoin and Blockchain companies who are due to launch shortly.

Watch the recording and demo here:

Other BnkToTheFuture News

CONGRATULATIONS – OVER $8.000,000 FOR BANK52:

B52 sees an opportunity to create an “any asset” digital bank in the traditional fiat currency banking world, allowing customers to buy stocks, provide peer to peer (P2P) loans and lending, purchase real estate, buy insurance or initiate payments instantly with cryptocurrencies at the same time.

Qualifying investors can view their pitch here.

PITCH LIVE FOR QUALIFYING INVESTORS – BABB:

Qualifying investors can view the pitch and invest here.

UX OVERHAUL – NEW DASHBOARD COMING SOON:

In parallel to numerous other product launches and upgrades, we believe it is really important to modernise the core platform experience. The dashboard, which is the hub and heart of your investment portfolio, seemed to be a great place to start. After numerous iterations and analysing existing feedback and combining this with real user behaviour data, we have come up with a solution that emphasizes the most important features of our ecosystem, while making those less used less prominent.

You can read the full update here

BLOGS AND INTERVIEWS:

Our CEO and Co-founder Simon Dixon was recently interviewed at Financial Underground Kingdom (FUK) Part 2. You can read the full post here.

Simon Dixon and Adam Meister once again meet on Bitcoin Meister channel to discuss the new trends in the Bitcoin Cash, as there are a lot of people excited about it’s movement on exchanges. You can read the full post here. Simon also gave live commentary before and after the Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork that can be viewed here.

OVER US$640,500,000 INVESTED:

We have now passed $640,500,000 invested in funding rounds listed on our Online Investment Platform. We thank every investor who have contributed to an investment in the Future of Finance and Technology.

More details can be found on our home page

MORE RETURNS:

We have now paid our Bnk To The Future ‘Professional Investor Members’ over 943,000 dividends and over $19,588,000 has been returned through our dividend paying funds

MORE INVESTORS:

Click here to find an opportunity you like.

Withdrawing your RIF Tokens from our RSK Private Sale

If you participated in the private token sale where we shared our allocation of RIF tokens exclusively for our priority access members here is a quick guide on withdrawing your RIF tokens. You can leave them on your BnkToTheFuture account for as long as you choose, but when you have some time it is best to get them in your control. You will need to create a wallet that allows for the acceptance of RSK-based tokens as per this guide if you have a Trezor or Ledger hardware wallet or you can wait for exchanges to support RIF deposits in the future, but we strongly recommend you start learning how to store your own crypto assets and use hardware wallets so you are in control.

Please note that when you request a withdrawal we have to complete a further compliance check on your account before sending you the tokens so withdrawals can take up to 5 working days if their are issues on your account.

Here is how to get an address that you can use to withdraw RIF tokens:

Go to https://mycrypto.com

Select Next until it finishes it shows ‘Get Started’:

Click ‘Get Started’

Select the Currency Combo Box -> Show other networks -> RSK (the first one) -> mycrypto.rsk.co

It will show like this:

Then click on Trezor or Ledger depending your device:

It’ll show you the steps using Trezor but with Ledger is very similar.

Click ‘Connect to TREZOR’

Click ‘Export’

You’ll see a screen like this:

Unlock your device with the PIN.

Then, you’ll see your addresses displayed:

Choose the address you want to use to receive your RIFs, copy it and enter this address when requesting a RIF withdrawal in the funds section of your BnkToTheFuture account. It is highly recommended to use the address before requesting a withdrawal. You can send some RBTCs (Bitcoin on RSK available at exchanges like Huobi, BitFinex and others, sometimes also called SBTC) to this address and then send them back from this address to test that you control this address.

Adding RIF to your wallet

On your wallet go below to ‘Token Balances’ and click ‘Add Custom Token’:

You’ll see this screen:

In ‘Address’ put 0x2acc95758f8b5f583470ba265eb685a8f45fc9d5 and it will complete the rest of the information and also the balance. Click ‘Save’:

Then you’ll see the balance any time you check your address in MyCrypto:

All Good!

RSK (RIF Token) Update: The 13th Priority Access Deal (PAD) Just Closed

The 13th Priority Access Deal (PAD) closed on the morning of November 28, 2018, and we don’t think it will be an unlucky deal number 13.

This was an opportunity to purchase tokens in the private sale issued by RSK who are aiming to lead a major technological shift within the next decade through Bitcoin. Investors with over 10,000 BFT tokens in their BnkToTheFuture.com account got an exclusive buying opportunity that was not open to anybody else.

Previous deals like this include equity in Securitize where we were investing alongside Coinbase Ventures, OXEX, Blockchain Capital and other top ties crypto investors, Telegram TON network and 11 other exclusive deals. Older investors on the online investment platform also got exposure to equity in companies like Kraken, BitFinex, BitStamp, BitPay and ShapeShift among others.

RSK – What was the 13th Priority Access Deal (PAD) about?

Many investors are forecasting that all of the world’s assets will be represented by a digital token on a Blockchain in the future as the world gets ready for security tokens – an area Bnk To The Future is investing and building in as we speak.

But there is a critical component to make this future a reality, and that is smart contracts. This application of the blockchain is automating processes and compliance within the security token asset itself. Currently, all this innovation is happening on Ethereum, but what if it could happen on the most secure Blockchain – Bitcoin?

Rootstock (RSK) is a very promising smart contract platform that utilizes the huge power of Bitcoin miners to secure the network. It aims to be the most secure owing to being built on top of Bitcoin, the blockchain with the largest hash power and the one that has survived the longest.

Rootstock has working products in the market already and has built a network of major partners, which includes the likes of Xapo, BitPay, Digital Currency Group, Antpool, BnkToTheFuture.com and many others.

On November 18, 2018, the team behind the project announced the launch of RIF Labs, a blockchain development lab that comes with the capacity to scale as well as interoperate smart contracts on RSK, with those running on other blockchains – the first in the space.

The RSK private token sale you may have missed

In the month of August, RSK completed a private token sale through which it managed to sell 22,000 BTC of RIF tokens to instructional investors and miners as strategic partners of the network. This private sale was for strategic reasons only with no public sale set to launch.

Bnk To The Future participated in the private sale and as a strategic partner was allocated a good amount of private sale. PAD members of Bnk To The Future who held a minimum of 10,000 Bnk To The Future Tokens (BFT) on their BnkToTheFuture.com account were offered a part of our allocation as a thank you to our BFT community shortly after the Token Generation Event (TGE).

The exclusive Priority Acess RSK Deal deal was finalized on November, 28 with 131 investors receiving 189.403 789 282 Bitcoin or 4,398,802 US Dollars. Just like we did with our Telegram token sale allocation, we provided the RSK PAD to those who have given the most to the BFT community and notified them exclusively by email.

To avoid missing another opportunity like this qualifying investors must create a fully verified and certified account on BnkToTheFuture.com and deposit at least 10,000 BFT to their account. Other perks coming soon to BFT token holders include 50% discounted trading fees when purchasing shares in the most valuable Bitcoin and Blockchain companies on our secondary market and BF Wallet integrations allowing you to hold your BFT and other security tokens on your mobile device.

We plan to have more PADs in the coming days.

To receive an invite to our coming priority access deals keep the balance of 10,000 BFT tokens in your BnkToTheFuture.com account. You can buy the BFT tokens on Huobi, Bitfinex, Ethfinex, Gate, Upbit, and Bittrex exchanges.

Aside from having a go at investment deals before other investors, other perks of being on the priority access deal email list will include rewards for due diligence, investor relations support and discounts on secondary market trading fees in the future.

BnkToTheFuture is a platform that facilitates those who want to invest in financial technology (Fintech) startups around the world. We invite qualifying investors to join the exclusive class and sample these startups before everyone else has a chance to join.

In many cases, all the investment on offer is sold at the PAD stage. Top up your account if you are a qualifying investor and watch out for future investment opportunities.

BnkToTheFuture Investors Cash-In on Bitstamp Exit

Having been an early investor in leading digital currency exchange Bitstamp, as we hosted their early funding round on our online investment platform for BnkToTheFuture.com investors, we’d like to announce Bitstamp’s acquisition by NXMH, a Belgium-based investment company. This results in the liquidation of their assets and an exit for our BnkToTheFuture investors who have now all received their exit proceeds. The full details on Price and Valuation are confidential to shareholders as BitStamp and the acquirers did not disclose the exact amount to the public.

Bitstamp, having one of the most successful early equity investment rounds on the online investment platform BnkToTheFuture.com, also served as a significant indicator that the appetite for investing in digital asset companies is being fuelled by the increased trust placed in digital assets globally. We are starting to see more and more merger and acquisition activity in our industry allowing early investors through BnkToTheFuture.com to cash in on their returns. This will become more frequent as BnkToTheFuture.com also prepares to launch its Secondary Market for buying and selling equity in the most valuable Bitcoin and Blockchain companies in the industry.

In light of the recent news, it was announced that 424 BnkToTheFuture.com investors achieved their profitable exit due to ⁦Bitstamp⁩’s asset liquidation. Selling the company was a bold decision resulting in high returns on investment acquired by the stakeholders in Bitstamp even in the recent crypto bear market.

Bitstamp is a European-based cryptocurrency marketplace, that allows people from all around the globe to buy and sell cryptocurrencies safely. Having been around since the first generation of exchanges went online, they serve as a stepping stone between the traditional financial and digital currency worlds.

While being regularly approached by various suitors, Bitstamp has been declining offers until now. Among the reasons for selling the company they name three main ones: the quality of the buyer, the quality of the offer and the fact that the industry is at a point where consolidation makes sense. Yet the main reason behind their decision is the fact that the mission, leadership and vision of the company remain the same.

Bitstamp assures their exchange users that acquisition will not only leave their trading experience, account safety and charges unaltered, but will strengthen the company’s growth, which will provide opportunities to better serve their existing and future customers.

The leaders behind the exit also share the positive outlook on the outcome of the acquisition.

“We are glad that BnkToTheFuture.com investors were the only other investors besides Pantera Capital that benefited from this multi-million dollar exit. BitStamp is an early pioneer in the crypto industry and we were very happy to back them early in their growth cycle. BnkToTheFuture.com investors got to lock in their returns and diversify their portfolio further with the launch of our secondary market for the most valuable Bitcoin and Blockchain companies,” – says Simon Dixon, CEO of BnkToTheFuture.com.

“Bitstamp has come a long way since we started in a garage with two laptops and EUR 1000 seven years ago. We believe this acquisition is the logical next step in Bitstamp’s growth as a company and I look forward to the future with this team”, – says Nejc Kodrič, Bitstamp’s CEO.

By supporting the most promising companies and market leaders in the Bitcoin and Blockchain sector, we aim to continue to provide fast-growing equity and security token opportunities for Bnk To The Future investors which are a subject to all our usual risk warnings.

BnkToTheFuture announces a partnership & investment in Securitize!

As the crypto market adjusts to the introduction of a liquid market for security tokens, at Bnk To The Future we have been investing in companies and building products to support the growth of the security token market.

So far we have made strategic investments in both – Polymath and Securitize, and recently closed an equity round on Securitize on BnkToTheFuture.com, where we co-invested with Blockchain Capital and CoinBase Ventures amongst others. We are also getting ready to launch the BF Wallet, which is a wallet for our members to get membership in priority access deals when they own the Bnk To The Future Token (BFT), as well as allow users to hold their security tokens in a compliant environment integrated with BnkToTheFuture.com. We also hosted our very first security token offering with Lottery.com. On top of that, we are almost ready to go live with our secondary market for buying and selling equity of the most valuable companies in Bitcoin and Blockchain as discussed in our last AMA and live demo here.

Our logical next step is to announce our partnership with Securitize. Securitize is a software compliance platform for the issuance and lifecycle management of digital securities on the blockchain, which while successfully issuing multiple digital securities on the Ethereum blockchain, enables a flawless trading experience in various marketplaces simultaneously. This new partnership presents great opportunities for both market leaders.

To begin with, the partnership provides Securitize’s customers with access to one of the most secure and established investment platforms on the market, while also opening the doors to trading across multiple marketplaces and exchanges thanks to Bnk To The Future’s adoption of Securitize’s Digital Securities Protocol on their upcoming securities token exchange launch. Among other benefits, Bnk To The Future will receive a special preferred status for all of its fundraising customers on the Securitize platform.

“We are very excited to partner with BnkToTheFuture. Much like Securitize, it executes on its mission and has proven to deliver on its product’s promise. BnkToTheFuture is a pioneering thought leader in the crypto space, and has been selling securities for Bitcoin and Blockchain companies since as early as 2011,” – said Carlos Domingo, CEO of Securitize.

“Before the appearance of security tokens, BnkToTheFuture.com has been investing and supporting the crypto industry since 2011, and over the years we have allowed our investors to gain equity exposure in some of the most valuable companies in the industry such as BitStamp, BitFinex, Kraken, ShapeShift and BitPay. We have no doubt that security tokens will fuel the next growth cycle in crypto, and by investing and partnering with Securitize, we look forward to accelerating growth and adoption in this new disruptive asset class”, – says Simon Dixon, BnkToTheFuture CEO.
We look forward to partnering with others and building the next wave of development through security tokens.

Live commentary before and after the Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork

The Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork gave crypto-minds so much food for thought and analytics! In this blog post we gladly present commentary before and after BCH Hard Fork. Enjoy!

Simon Dixon commentary before the Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork with the Bitcoin community

The secomd video is Simon Dixon commentary after the hard fork with the Bitcoin Cash community.