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Bitbank Exchange

Bitbank is a cryptocurrency exchange focused on cryptocurrency-to-cryptocurrency and yen-to-cryptocurrency trading. 
==Background==
Bitbank was introduced to the Japanese market in mid-2014, after the collapse of Mt. Gox. In addition to providing a platform for trading, it also offers wallet and payment services. In May 2018 Bitbank (Exchange) offered Japanese Yen trading against Ripple, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and MonaCoin as well at least four additional crypto pairs. 
== References ==	
Category: China
Category: cryptocurrency
Category: Asia
Category: fintech
Category: exchanges
Category:CryptoMarketsWiki
Bitcoin.com

Bitcoin.com provides a free bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash wallet, news services, community forums, games, and bitcoin education resources as well as a store for purchasing bitcoin-themed goods (including clothing) and services. It accepts credit cards to purchase bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash and does not deal in other cryptocurrencies.
== Overview ==
Bitcoin.com, clearly a desirable web domain address, was originally owned by the now defunct Trade Hill, which was a very early bitcoin exchange. Bitcoin.com was later used by Coinbase to acquire customers. Use of the name was reportedly taken over by Blockchain.info in April 2014. By the middle of the next year, Roger Ver, the so-called "Crypto Jesus" and current CEO of Bitcoin.com, was in public dispute with OKEx regarding commercialization of the domain.
More recently, Bitcoin.com has been the focus of anger by parts of the bitcoin community over its support for bitcoin cash. In May 2018, CoinMarketCap quietly removed Bitcoin.com from its website, which tracks volume and price activity, following allegations that Bitcoin.com was misleading customers into buying Bitcoin Cash instead of Bitcoin.
== Exchange.Bitcoin.com ==
In August 2019, Bitcoin.com announced that it would be launching a cryptocurrency trading platform called Exchange.Bitcoin.com, which would support trading for Ethereum, Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP), Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin, in addition to bitcoin.
==References==
Category:Bitcoin
Category:Wallet
Category:CryptoMarketsWiki
Bitcoin.org

Bitcoin.org is the name and the address of a website that promotes the use and development of bitcoin.
== Background == 
Bitcoin.org was established by Satoshi Nakamoto around the time he published the bitcoin white paper in 2008. According to the bitcoin.org website, Nakamoto gave the domain to people other than bitcoin developers in order to distribute responsibility and reduce the risk of any person or group gaining control over the bitcoin project.
Control of the domain became controversial in the bitcoin community, reportedly spilling into a public debate on GitHub in July 2018. Two of the early acolytes of Nakamoto named Cobra and Theymos seem to be the main proprietors of the site. While expressing conspiracy theories and promoting anarchic philosophies on social media, Cobra and Theymos's biggest offense to some bitcoin developers is that they express an insufficient contempt for Bitcoin Cash, which was spun off from bitcoin in the August 2017 hard fork.
== References ==
Category: digital assets
Category: bitcoin
Category: distributed ledgers
Category: cryptocurrency
Category: CryptoMarketsWiki
Bitcoin Cash ABC

#redirect Bitcoin Cash
Bitcoin ABC is a cryptocurrency created in 2018. It is the result of a software upgrade to the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) protocol that resulted in a hard fork, which also created Bitcoin SV.
== Overview ==
In 2018, a software developer called ABC Bitcoin proposed an upgrade to the Bitcoin Cash protocol. The changes included potential scaling solutions for the cryptocurrency by changing the way its blockchain stored information. The upgrades were endorsed by Roger Ver and Bitcoin.com. They also had the potential to allow software developers to create smart contract software platforms on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain. This proposal was met with contentious feedback, especially from prominent Bitcoin Cash developer nChain and its founder, Craig Wright. In response, nChain made its own proposal for a software upgrade, which they dubbed Bitcoin SV (the SV being short for "Satoshi's Vision"), which they argued would be closer to Satoshi Nakamoto's original vision. On November 15th, 2018, Bitcoin Cash forked, which began an intense conflict between miners supporting Bitcoin ABC and Bitcoin SV respectively.
== References ==
Category: digital assets
Category: definitions
Category: cryptocurrency
Category: altcoins
Category: forks
Category: altcoins
Category: CryptoMarketsWiki
Bitcoin Diamond (BCD)

Bitcoin Diamond (BCD) is a hard fork of Bitcoin.
With a market capitalization of about $164 million, BCD was the 45th largest cryptocurrency on April 15, 2019, according to CoinMarketCap, an online industry data reporting service. 
In August 2020, Bitcoin Diamond successfully underwent a halving. BCD's mining rewards halved from 125 to 62.5 BCD. 
== References ==
Category:Cryptocurrency
Category:Blockchain
Category:CryptoMarketsWiki
Bitcoin Gold

Bitcoin Gold is famous for being the target of a 51% attack in May 2018. In a 51% attack, the attacker exercises control of more than half of the hashing power of the cryptocurrency. Approximately $18 million in Bitcoin Gold tokens were diverted during the attack.
Bitcoin Gold is sponsored by the Bitcoin Gold Organization, which consists of seven co-founders and additional staff. Bitcoin Gold's mining protocol uses the equihash algorithm in its proof of work. Equihash is designed to rely on computer memory and is supposed to be resistant to the dominance of application-specific integrated circuit technology.
As of October 4, 2018 Bitcoin Gold was the 23rd largest cryptocurrency as ranked by market capitalization according to data on CoinMarketCap. There were 17,269,449 coins in circulation trading at about $25.11 per coin, and it was the 30th most actively traded coin. 
==References==
Category:ASIC
Category:Cryptocurrency
Category:CryptoMarketsWiki
Bitcoin Magazine

Bitcoin Magazine is a online bitcoin-centric media company that also features content relating to other cryptocurrencies, or altcoins. The magazine is owned by BTC Media LLC.
== Overview ==
Bitcoin Magazine regularly posts news stories about bitcoin and the cryptocurrency world. Common topics include blockchain technology, digital asset and blockchain startup spotlights, regulation, exchanges, mining, and crypto scams. It also publishes guides for purchasing cryptocurrency, as well as explanations of crypto fintech such as wallets. 
Bitcoin Magazine also has live market index for cryptocurrencies, as well as online tools to help users buy bitcoins and sign up for an Exodus wallet. The company also publishes podcasts and hosts events internationally. Although the company says in their "About" section that they do not publish press releases, there are press releases on the site as well, published by staff editors.
== Background ==
Bitcoin Magazine was founded in 2012 by Vitalik Buterin and Mihai Alisie.
== References ==
Category: cryptocurrency
Category: bitcoin
Category: CryptoMarketsWiki
Bitcoin Pizza Day

Bitcoin Pizza Day is an annual celebration in the cryptocurrency community that commemorates the first real-world transaction involving bitcoin. On May 22, 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz, a programmer from Florida, paid 10,000 bitcoins (valued at around $41 at the time) for two Papa John's pizzas.
== Background ==
In its early days, bitcoin was a little-known digital currency that had very little monetary value. Laszlo Hanyecz was an early adopter and miner of bitcoin. On May 18, 2010, he posted a request on the Bitcoin Talk forum titled "Pizza for bitcoins?", offering to pay 10,000 bitcoins for a pizza delivery.
A 19-year-old student named Jeremy Sturdivant responded and agreed to order the pizzas from Papa John's and have them delivered to Hanyecz's home in exchange for the bitcoins. On May 22, 2010, the transaction was completed, marking the first documented purchase of a physical good with bitcoins.
=== Significance ===
The Bitcoin Pizza Day transaction is considered a seminal moment in bitcoin's history as it represented the first time that the digital currency was used to purchase a physical item. It demonstrated that bitcoins had a real-world value beyond just being traded between users.
As bitcoin's value and adoption grew over the years, the 10,000 bitcoins paid for those two pizzas became worth millions of dollars, highlighting the early adopters' foresight and the cryptocurrency's potential for appreciation.
Bitcoin Pizza Day has since become an annual celebration in the crypto community, with enthusiasts often ordering pizza and exchanging bitcoin on May 22nd to commemorate the event. It serves as a reminder of bitcoin's humble beginnings and its journey towards mainstream acceptance.
=== Legacy ===
The Bitcoin Pizza Day transaction has become a legendary story in the crypto world, often cited as an example of the early believers' commitment to the technology and their willingness to experiment with its real-world applications.
It has also been used as a cautionary tale about the potential value of holding onto cryptocurrencies in their early stages, as the 10,000 bitcoins spent on those pizzas would be worth tens of millions of dollars at today's prices.
== References ==
Category:Bitcoin
Category:Digital Currency
Bitcoin futures

Bitcoin futures contracts are offered in the U.S. by the CME Group, Inc., Intercontinental Exchange Group Inc.'s ICE Futures US and ICE Futures Singapore, and ErisX. LedgerX, a swap execution facility that launched bitcoin swaps trading and clearing in October 2017, was designated a contract market for bitcoin futures on June 24, 2019 but its requisite futures clearing authorization only came about in September 2020. 
Though they were the first in the world to offer them, Cboe Global Markets, Inc. Cboe Futures Exchange ceased offering bitcoin futures trading in June 2019. 
== References ==
Category: CryptoMarketsWiki
Bitpanda

Bitpanda GmbH is an Austrian fintech company headquartered in Vienna, providing a digital investment platform for cryptocurrencies, stocks, ETFs, and precious metals. Founded in 2014, Bitpanda has grown to become one of Europe's leading investment platforms, achieving unicorn status in 2021 with a valuation of over $4 billion.
== History ==
Bitpanda was founded in 2014 by Eric Demuth, Paul Klanschek, and Christian Trummer. Initially operating under the name Coinimal GmbH, the company focused solely on cryptocurrency trading. In 2017, Bitpanda partnered with Österreichische Post to allow Bitcoin voucher purchases at over 1,800 locations, expanding its accessibility.
In 2018, the company officially changed its name to Bitpanda GmbH and began diversifying its services. The following year, Bitpanda launched its own token, BEST, and integrated precious metal trading into its platform.
Bitpanda's growth accelerated in 2020 and 2021, with significant funding rounds led by Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures. In March 2021, the company raised $170 million, achieving a valuation of $1.2 billion and becoming Austria's first unicorn. Just four months later, Bitpanda secured an additional $263 million in funding, tripling its valuation to $4.1 billion.
== Products and Services ==
Bitpanda offers a range of investment products and services:
* Cryptocurrency trading: A platform for buying, selling, and storing various cryptocurrencies. 
* Stocks and ETFs: Fractional investing in stocks and ETFs. 
* Precious metals: Trading in gold, silver, platinum, and palladium. 
* Bitpanda Crypto Index: An automated investment product for the crypto market. 
* Bitpanda Card: A Visa debit card that allows users to spend their investments. 
* Bitpanda White Label: A B2B solution enabling other companies to offer trading services using Bitpanda's infrastructure.
== Key People ==
== Key People ==
* Eric Demuth: co-founder and CEO
* Paul Klanschek: co-founder and CEO
* Christian Trummer: co-founder and CTO
* Lindsay Ross: chief HR officer
* Irina Scarlat: chief growth officer
* João Luís: VP of engineering
* Michael Keskerides: VP of product 
 
Joshua Barraclough, former co-head of digital innovation at J.P. Morgan, joined as CEO of Bitpanda Pro in October 2021.
== References ==
Category:Fintech
Category:Cryptocurrency
Category:Exchanges
Category:Investment Platforms
Category:Austrian Companies
Category:Unicorn Companies
Bitpanda Pro

Bitpanda Pro was an advanced digital asset exchange platform launched in 2019 by Bitpanda, an Austrian cryptocurrency broker. The platform was designed to cater to experienced traders and institutional investors, offering a regulated and secure environment for trading digital assets.
== History ==
Bitpanda Pro was introduced in 2019 as a subsidiary of Bitpanda GmbH, a company founded in 2014 by Eric Demuth, Paul Klanschek, and Christian Trummer. The platform was created to provide a more sophisticated trading experience for professional traders and institutions, complementing Bitpanda's existing retail-focused services.
In October 2021, Joshua Barraclough, former co-head of digital innovation at J.P. Morgan, was appointed as CEO of Bitpanda Pro. This move was part of Bitpanda's strategy to accelerate the expansion of its professional trading platform.
In June 2023, Bitpanda Pro rebranded as One Trading and became fully independent from Bitpanda. The newly independent company raised €30 million in funding, led by Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, to further develop its offerings and expand its reach in the European market.
== Products and Services ==
During its operation as Bitpanda Pro, the platform offered:
* Cryptocurrency trading: Advanced trading features for various digital assets.
* Institutional-grade infrastructure: Fully-responsive REST and WebSocket API connections for easy integration.
* High liquidity: Competitive rates for businesses such as cryptocurrency ATMs and payment service providers.
* Regulatory compliance: Full compliance with AML5 regulations and PSD2 licensing.
* Security measures: State-of-the-art security protocols, including cold storage for funds.
* 24/7 support: Round-the-clock customer service and dedicated account managers for eligible accounts.
== Key People ==
* Joshua Barraclough: CEO of Bitpanda Pro (2021-2023), now CEO of One Trading
* Eric Demuth: Co-founder and CEO of Bitpanda
* Paul Klanschek: Co-founder and CEO of Bitpanda
* Christian Trummer: Co-founder and CTO of Bitpanda
== References ==
Category:Cryptocurrency
Category:Exchanges
Category:Fintech
Category:Digital Assets
Category:Bitpanda
Category:One Trading
Category:Renamed Firms
Bitwage

Bitwage is a company that specializes in providing HR and payroll services, including digital asset payroll services, for international businesses, especially ones that rely on remote and/or contract employees.
== Overview ==
Bitwage was founded in 2014 in San Francisco, California. The company's CEO and co-founder, Jonathan Chester, told Bitcoin Magazine that Bitwage seeks to address problems often encountered by companies that try to pay their employees in cryptocurrency, since "traditional payroll and payroll tax systems are designed for the fiat world." In January 2019, the company announced that it had partnered with Simply Efficient HR, a Texas-based payroll and HR firm, to help the company provide their customers with payroll and HR compliance services for employees being paid in bitcoin and Ether. Bitwage had been running a beta version of their service on Paxful, a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency marketplace, since November 2018.
== Products and Services ==
Bitwage's primary service is providing a way for businesses to pay their workers in cryptocurrency. Part of their services include, for businesses based in the U.S. (including Puerto Rico), providing W2 forms, tax withholding, and other HR and payroll compliance obligations to the U.S. government for employees being paid in bitcoin and Ether. The company also seeks to use these services to make it easier for companies with banking issues to pay their employees.
In January 2020, Bitwage and software developer Consultabit launched a bitcoin dollar cost average calculator. 
In August 2020, at the same time that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) began sending out a new batch of letters to cryptocurrency traders concerning the proper reporting of cryptocurrency gains for tax purposes, Bitwage and Consultabit launched a tax tool that calculates the amount of taxes owed to the IRS based on the amount of cryptocurrency invested by the person filing, their annual income, and their marital status.
== Key People ==
*Jonathan Chester - CEO & Founder
*John Lindsay - CTO & Founder 
== References ==
Category:cryptocurrency
Category:digital assets
Category:regulation
Category:CryptoMarketsWiki
Bjørn Sibbern

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Bjørn Sibbern is president of European markets at Nasdaq. He was promoted to the role in May 2019, from his previous position as executive vice president for global information services at Nasdaq. He is responsible for managing the trading, clearing and settlement and data for Nasdaq's operations in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and the Baltic countries. He will also expand Nasdaq's business across Europe.
== Background ==
Before taking on those roles, he served as senior vice president of global trading and market services and led the global commodity markets and broker services at Nasdaq Copenhagen. He joined Nasdaq in 2008 as president of OMX Nordic Exchange Copenhagen, replacing Jan Ovesen.
Sibbern moved to New York in June of 2017 to become Nasdaq's executive vice president of global information services.
He was previously president of E*Trade Bank in Denmark and was vice president of issuer services at the Nordic Exchange and head of trading and issuer services for the exchange in Copenhagen.
== Education ==
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Nasdaq OMX
BlackRock MLIM

BlackRock MLIM is an asset management company that combined BlackRock and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. It had around $1 trillion in assets under management when it was announced in 2006.
The company offers a range of equity, fixed income, cash management and alternative investment products with a representation in both retail and institutional channels, in the U.S. and in non-U.S. markets. It has over 4,500 employees in 18 countries with a presence in most major markets, including the U.S., the U.K., Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Europe.
== History ==
Until late 2006, MLIM was the Merrill Lynch's proprietary asset management platform and its smallest business. In 2006, Merrill Lynch announced a joint venture between MLIM and BlackRock. Under the terms of the venture, MLIM and BlackRock were merged, and Merrill Lynch retained 49.8 percent ownership of the new entity.
MLIM began managing assets in the UK in 1946 as part of S.G. Warburg & Co. (later known as Mercury Asset Management), and began managing assets in the U.S. in 1976 under the Merrill Lynch name. 
 
== Products and Services ==
== Key People ==
== References ==
Category:BlackRock
Category:Merrill Lynch
Black Monday of 1987

Oct. 19, 1987, is commonly known as Black Monday among those in the financial industry. On this day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) dropped by 508 points to 1739 (or 22.6 percent), and similar declines occurred in stock indexes around the world. The slip in the stock market signified the largest one-day decline in equity market history. 
Debate as to the cause of the crash still continues many years after the event, with no firm conclusions reached. Following Black Monday, program trading and the futures markets initially were tagged with the meltdown, only later to be exonerated as noted market academicians and other market experts reviewed the exchanges' operations during the period.
The 1987 sell-off was said to have been fueled in part by "portfolio insurance," a strategy used by large institutions in hopes of minimizing losses. But as stocks began sliding on Black Monday, the institutions’ computers sold stock-index futures, which only magnified the selling pressure.
Despite strong economic growth and a euphoria in the financial markets, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was unable to prevent shady initial public offerings (IPOs) and conglomerates from proliferating. In early 1987, the SEC conducted numerous investigations of illegal insider trading. This created a wary stance from many investors at this point. Also, due to the extremely strong economic growth, inflation was becoming a concern. The Federal Reserve rapidly raised short-term interest rates to temper inflation. This, unfortunately, had the effect of hurting stocks as well.
Following the market crash, exchanges across the world implemented trading halts or "circuit breakers," to better coordinate market activity during periods of extreme market stress. These circuit breakers still exist and are used today. In addition, the Federal Reserve became more vigilant regarding the possible need to pump liquidity into the system to avoid further down drafts.
== Resources ==
*ABC News "Black Monday" news broadcast
== References ==
Category:Stocks
Category:Equities
Category:Market Crashes
Black Swan

"Black Swan" is a term popularized by Nassim Nicholas Taleb's 2007 book, "The Black Swan: the Impact of the Highly Improbable." The book focuses on a common error people make in economic forecasting: they place too much weight on the odds that past events will repeat; however, really important economic and political events are rare and unpredictable. 
"Black Swan" is a reference to a 17th century philosophical thought experiment. Europeans used the phrase "all swans are white" as the standard example of a scientific truth (because no one had seen any swans that were not white). The chance of seeing a black swan was thought to be impossible to calculate...until 1697, when they were found in Australia.
Thus the term Black Swan is used to mean a rare, high impact, and hard-to-predict event. Some examples Taleb uses are: the rise of Hitler, the demise of the Soviet bloc, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, the spread of the Internet and the market crash of 1987. These events are predictable only in retrospect; human nature makes us concoct explanations for an occurrence after the fact, making it explainable and predictable.
Taleb first made this argument in "Fooled by Randomness," his book about the predilection for self-deception when it comes to statistics. 
== References ==
Category:Market Terms
Category:Definitions
Black Tuesday

Black Tuesday - Oct. 29, 1929 - was considered to be the worst day in the history of the U.S. stock market. Stocks plunged by 12 percent, having already fallen by 13 percent the previous day. The crash heralded the Great Depression.
A new record for that time of of 16.4 million shares were traded and the ticker tape fell behind by two and a half hours. 
== References ==
Category:Market Crashes
Category:Great Depression