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Bitcoin is Here to Stay and Safebit Wants to Be Its Wallet

Safebit has launched a Chrome extension preview version which received positive reviews, and is now operating in Alpha mode. According to the founders, on the first 24 hours of operation, over 725 unique users paid with Safebit.

In the world of payments online, there’s usually a financial institution involved – a bank, a credit card company, etc. There’s several problems with this status quo- apart from the fact that financial services companies take a cut from every commerce transaction online, these payments are usually non-reversible and expensive to process. That’s where Bitcoin comes.

Bitcoin is an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Using P2P technology Bitcoin is built on open source software which enables the use of this currency. On peak days, Bitcoin processes about $25 million in payments in a single day.

In the words of its founder Satoshi Nakamoto (possibly a preudoname):

 A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online
payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a
financial institution.  Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main
benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required to prevent double-spending.
We propose a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer network...

Safebit wallet logoAs Open source is not always the prettiest software to look at, Israeli entrepreneurs Eli Sklar and Or Perelman came up with Safebit, an elegant cross platform Bitcoin Wallet/Vault. Safebit’s primary goal is to create a safe and secure way of storing and exchanging Bitcoins, by reducing the risk of unauthorized access to one’s Bitcoins. This kind of security flaw is possible when a user keeps the Bitcoins in a non-encrypted file on his desktop.

Safebit has launched a Chrome extension preview version which received positive reviews, and is now operating in Alpha mode.  According to the founders, on the first 24 hours of operation, over 725 unique users paid with Safebit.

Safebit faces competition from other Bitcoin Wallets, which seem to be abundant on Android app market.

Safebit virtual vault
Safebit Wallet is a virtual vault for your Bitcoin trans

 

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Eze is managing partner of Remagine Ventures, a seed fund investing in ambitious founders at the intersection of tech, entertainment, gaming and commerce with a spotlight on Israel.

I'm a former general partner at google ventures, head of Google for Entrepreneurs in Europe and founding head of Campus London, Google's first physical hub for startups.

I'm also the founder of Techbikers, a non-profit bringing together the startup ecosystem on cycling challenges in support of Room to Read. Since inception in 2012 we've built 11 schools and 50 libraries in the developing world.
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