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Re: $55 mio series a funding of bitcoin core, wtf ??
by
XCASH
on 04/02/2016, 11:28:14 UTC
$55 mio pumped directly to some core devs. the very heart of bitcoin. is this good for the price of bitcoin?

I have been reading the article from coindesk about this $55 million investment, but I can't find anything about that the money is going to core devs....??

http://www.coindesk.com/blockstream-55-million-series-a/

The article says the money is going to Blockstream.

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Blockstream has raised $55m in Series A funding to continue its work expanding the bitcoin code base for commercial use.

Blockstream was co-founded by the Bitcoin core developer Gregory Maxwell and Dr Adam Back who invented hashcash, which is the the proof-of-work system used in bitcoin. They want to fork Bitcoin to support their sidechains technology.