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至今为止btc产业的最大投资，循环资本900万美金
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华尔街日报上周宣布Bitcoin的创业资本已经休眠的论调有点为时过早了。总部位于波士顿的循环互联网金融公司 （Circle Internet Financial Inc.）走上台前，周四宣布它已筹集900万美元，募资来自Jim Breyer（吉姆·布雷耶）, Accel Partners和General Catalyst Partners。循环互联网金融公司由42岁的视频平台Brightcove公司创始人杰里米·阿莱尔创立。该公司向公众提供支付受理工具，为商家和消费者购买、销售、接收、存储比特币，与BitPay、Coinbase两巨头直接竞争。


circle的服务接受用户注册时，处于circle.com的beta版测试阶段。我问阿莱尔购买了该网址花了多少法币。“这网址很贵”，他从都柏林回答说，那里将是公司的国际总部。 “获得该域名是一个艰难的过程。我们解决了这个问题一个星期后，有人问我，“你有没有看到戴夫·艾格的新书吗？ ”


循环金融的联合创始人杰里米·阿莱尔说他一年半前开始学习关于比特币相关知识，是由于在媒体上的文章，和人们关于btc的“嗡嗡声和喋喋不休”引起了兴趣。

“我20年来一直在互联网平台的建设工作，一直专注于互联网的开放标准之上建立平台来做产业转换， ”阿莱尔说。 “当我看了看周围Bitcoin的新兴生态系统，它打动了我，这是一个全球性的机会。 ”

循环金融的投资者，他们也曾涉及于Brightcove公司的募资，同意了开展这项业务。循环金融的成立使btc业界增加了一个新的拥有严肃的资本和经验的公司，4岁的Bitcoin正走向主流的大舞台。

“ Bitcoin的行业在去年经历了一个令人难以置信的演变，”Perkins Coie公司的雅各布·法伯说：“这之中有一个变化，btc的捍卫者从一个先驱们的小圈子变成了严肃的商务人士和资本，这些人将Bitcoin视作一种商业模式，不只是纯粹的哲学的原因。 ”

阿莱尔说几个月前的融资， “我们会按照产品开发，合规及监管事务，以及营销这个流程来进行。他和联合创始人肖恩·内维尔，该公司的首席技术总监，聘请的第一个人就是一个合规官。该公司已经注册了财政部的FinCen牌照，即金钱服务业务牌照，与多个州进行接触，在我们需要运营的范围内尽可能多的注册牌照。”


“当你看着Bitcoin的世界，要成功的完成A轮融资需要得到来自不同国家47张牌照”，Promontory Financial Group的合规部专家亚当·夏皮罗，在最近的一次有关的颠覆性技术的会议中说。 “投资者不常听闻这样的事，他们习惯于初创企业先成长，然后面对调控。 “

正如由Coindesk指出的 ，循环金融的牌照是行业内最多的： “怎么样正确的理解这个数字呢，比特币钱包服务和支付处理者Coinbase收到Union Square Ventures财团领衔的611万美金的A轮融资 ，BitPay迄今已收到约250万美元。 “

“我相信你会看到全球主要零售商会采用建立在比特币系统。吉姆·布雷耶对纽约时报说 。布雷耶是Facebook早期FB投资者。许多在硅谷人士在Bitcoin上看到了如同facebook过去十年的回报潜力。

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The Biggest Bitcoin Investment So Far: Circle Raises $9 Million
The Wall Street Journal proclaimed the hibernation of Bitcoin venture capital a bit prematurely last week. Boston-based Circle Internet Financial Inc. came out of stealth mode Thursday announcing it has raised $9 million from Jim Breyer, Accel Partners and General Catalyst Partners. Founded by Jeremy Allaire, 42, who built and took video platform Brightcove BCOV +0.08% public, Circle plans to offer payment acceptance tools for merchants and a place for consumers to buy, sell, receive, and store Bitcoins, setting it up to compete with BitPay and Coinbase.


The service is accepting sign-ups for when it launches in beta at circle.com. I asked Allaire how much state-backed currency it took to purchase that url. “It was expensive,” he replied by phone from Dublin, where the company will have its international headquarters. “Getting the domain was a difficult process. A week after we settled it, someone asked me, ‘Have you seen Dave Egger’s new book?’”


Jeremy Allaire, co-founder of Circle (No, he's not a Dave Eggers character)
Allaire says he started learning about Bitcoin a year and a half ago, due to a flurry of articles in the media and “buzz and chatter” among people he knew.

“I’ve been building Internet platforms for 20 years.My work has always been focused on building things on top of the open standards of the Internet that transform industries,” says Allaire. “When I looked at the ecosystem emerging around Bitcoin, it struck me that this was a global opportunity.”

Circle’s investors, who has also been involved in funding Brightcove, agreed. The Circle’s entry into the market adds another business with serious funding and experience attempting to take the 4-year-old Bitcoin into the mainstream.

“The Bitcoin industry has undergone an incredible evolution in the last year,” says Jacob Farber of Perkins Coie. “There’s been a changing of guard from a small circle of early adopters to serious business people with funding, who see Bitcoin as a payment system and a way of building a business and are not just in it for purely philosophical reasons.”

Allaire says the financing, which happened “some months ago,” is going toward product development, compliance and regulatory affairs, and marketing — in that order. The first person he and co-founder Sean Neville, the company’s chief technology officer, hired was a compliance officer. The company is already registered with the Department of Treasury’s FinCen as a money services business, and is “engaged with multiple states and planning to be licensed in as many as we need to be to operate.”


“When you look at Bitcoin world, people raising their series A need to get 47 money transmitter licenses [from different states],” said Adam Shapiro, a regulatory expert at Promontory Financial Group, LLC, at a recent conference about disruptive technologies. “Investors aren’t used to hearing that. They’re used to start-ups growing and facing regulation later.”

As noted by Coindesk, Circle’s Series A is the largest yet in the industry: “To put this in perspective, bitcoin wallet service and payment processor Coinbase received $6.11m in Series A funding led by Union Square Ventures, and BitPay have received around $2.5m to date from Founders Fund and various angels.”

“I’m confident you will see major worldwide retailers adopting systems built on bitcoin,” said investor Jim Breyer to the New York Times. Breyer was an early Facebook FB +2.44% investor. Many in Silicon Valley see Bitcoin holding the same pay-off potential as social networks did last decade.


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