Bitmain acquired Bitcoin wallet Blocktrail

The Chinese manufacturer mayningovogo Bitmain equipment acquired company-developer Bitcoin wallet Blocktrail. Two years ago Blocktrail received funding from the co-founder of Vkontakte Lev Leviev.

The transaction amount was not disclosed. As stated Bitmain, using absorption Blocktrail miner plans to strengthen its position in the market of consulting and analytical studies. In addition to the production equipment mayningovogo Antminer Bitcoin ASIC, Bitmain also manages the cloud platform mayningovoy Hashnest, mayningovym pool Antpool and statistical site BTC.com. On Antpool now accounts for over 19% of the total heshreyta in Bitcoin network.

"We appreciated the products, services and team Blocktrail. We hope to use this acquisition to offer customers worldwide BTC.com better services and products ", - said one of the founders Bitmain Tszihan W.

Bitmain going to implement API purse Blocktrail and HD-purse technology with multipodpisi function for expansion, provided on BTC.com services portfolio.

«Bitmain is a leading global company in the Bitcoin space. Combining with Bitmain will benefit not only our company, but also to all our current and future customers ", - said director general Blocktrail Boaz Bechar. It is on a par with Leviev is co-founder BlockCorp, which has invested in Blocktrail.

While it is assumed that Blocktrail will continue to operate as normal and current clients of the company will not affect any changes.

BlockCorp Leviev has invested in a company registered in the Netherlands Blocktrail € 500,000 in April 2014. Then he said in a conversation with CoinDesk, that interested Bitcoin in 2013 and was immediately poryazhen the potential that has this "breakthrough technology".

"We are interested in attracting a wide audience to Bitcoins", - said later Leviev.