{"id":14791,"date":"2021-01-08T10:08:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T00:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalfintech.com\/?p=14791"},"modified":"2021-01-24T18:24:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T08:24:53","slug":"bitstocks-launches-crowdfunding-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalfintech.com\/bitstocks-launches-crowdfunding-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitstocks launches crowdfunding campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In a strong opening move for 2021, Hackney-based fintech scale-up <a href=\"https:\/\/ukfintech.co\/company\/bitstocks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Bitstocks<\/strong><\/span><\/a> has today publicly launched its first-ever crowdfunding campaign &#8211; to advance the development of their bitcoin financial ecosystem, <a href=\"https:\/\/ukfintech.co\/company\/gravity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Gravity<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Their initial three days of private crowdfunding, through the <a href=\"https:\/\/internationalfintech.com\/Company\/crowdcube\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>CrowdCube<\/strong><\/span><\/a> investment platform, has been met with resounding interest from backers in both the cryptocurrency and fintech industries, punching through the company\u2019s initial target of \u00a3500,000 and putting them into overfunding for the public launch.<\/p>\n<p>The launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/internationalfintech.com\/company\/bitstocks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Bitstocks<\/strong><\/span><\/a> crowdfunding comes as the bitcoin market continues it\u2019s 9-month price rally, with prices for Bitcoin Core (BTC) reaching over $38,000 (\u00a327,000) on some exchanges this week.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Hudson, CEO, says: \u201cWe\u2019ve seen a huge surge of activity on <a href=\"https:\/\/internationalfintech.com\/company\/gravity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Gravity<\/strong><\/span><\/a> since October &#8211; transaction volumes were up 50% MoM in November, and again almost 39% MoM in December. We\u2019ve also had a fantastic response to our referral programme, Gravity Introducers &#8211; which allows customers to earn a percentage of the transaction fees from anyone they introduce with their unique link, for life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>To read more, please click on the link below\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finextra.com\/pressarticle\/85639\/bitstocks-launches-crowdfunding-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bitstocks launches crowdfunding campaign<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackney-based fintech Bitstocks has publicly launched its first-ever crowdfunding campaign for their bitcoin financial ecosystem, Gravity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[486,475],"tags":[196,190,191,350,356,480,1316],"class_list":["post-14791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-fintech","tag-bitcoin","tag-capital-raising","tag-crowd-funding","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-digital-currency","tag-fintech-disruptors","tag-uk-fintech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalfintech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalfintech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalfintech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalfintech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalfintech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/internationalfintech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14795,"href":"https:\/\/internationalfintech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14791\/revisions\/14795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalfintech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalfintech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalfintech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalfintech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}