Bitcoin is a digital asset and a payment system invented by Satoshi Nakamoto, who published the invention in 2008 and released it as open-source software in 2009. The system is peer-to-peer and transactions take place between users directly, without an intermediary. These transactions are verified by network nodes and recorded in a public distributed ledger called the block chain,which uses bitcoin as its unit of account.
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1.Coinbase
Release Date :June 20, 2012)
Headquarters : Francisco, California, United State
Founder(s) :Brian Armstrong & Fred Ehrsam
Users :2,800,000 (Nov 2015)
Coinbase official website
Coinbase is a Bitcoin exchange company headquartered in San Francisco California, founded by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam. It operates exchanges between bitcoin and fiat currencies in 32 countries, and bitcoin transactions and storage in 190 countries worldwide.Area serve 33 U.S. States and some countries.
Coinbase has two core products: an exchange for trading bitcoin and fiat currency and an API for developers and merchants to build applications and accept bitcoin payments. The company offers buy/sell trading functionality in 25 countries, while the wallet is available in 190 countries worldwide.
2.Xapo
Xapo is a Switzerland-based company that provides a bitcoin wallet combined with a cold storage vault and a bitcoin-based debit card.It launched March 2014 & served worldwide.
Xapo official websiteXapo was founded with the aim of making the bitcoin currency more secure and accessible.The Xapo Wallet operates through a mobile app and online and includes the ability to transfer funds to and from the Xapo Vault.In April 2014, Xapo introduced a debit card that will link to the user’s Xapo Wallet and will function like a standard debit card, except that it is backed by bitcoins instead of traditional currency.
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