{"id":10122,"date":"2014-02-09T22:33:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T06:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10122"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:09:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:09:38","slug":"bitcoin-company-offers-stock-denominated-in-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/bitcoin-company-offers-stock-denominated-in-bitcoin","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin company offers stock denominated in bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"author\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/author\/cmimsqz\/\">Christopher Mims \u2014 Quartz<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"anno-span\">Startup <a href=\"http:\/\/www.btcwtf.com.\/\">Bitcoin Kinetics<\/a>, which aims to create hardware that can allow vending machines to accept bitcoin, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Bitcoin\/comments\/1x6j8a\/bitcoin_kinetics_is_going_public\/\">offering 10 billion shares of common stock<\/a> on the website <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptostocks.com\/securities\/85\">Cryptostocks<\/a>. This isn\u2019t your typical IPO\u2014Cryptostocks, where Bitcoin Kinetics will be \u201clisted,\u201d describes itself as both a crowd funding platform and a place to \u201cbuy shares\u2026 and earn dividends.\u201d It\u2019s not clear what the legal status of Cryptostocks is, since it\u2019s not licensed or registered as an exchange. One commenter <a href=\"http:\/\/trilema.com\/2013\/why-you-cant-invest-with-cryptostocks\/\">called Cryptostocks<\/a> \u201canother of the play-pretend Bitcoin financial exchanges.\u201d (We reached out to Cryptostocks for comment, and will update this when we hear back from them.) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/174757\/bitcoin-company-offers-stock-denominated-in-bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Christopher Mims \u2014 Quartz Startup Bitcoin Kinetics, which aims to create hardware that can allow vending machines to accept bitcoin, is offering 10 billion shares of common stock on the website Cryptostocks. This isn\u2019t your typical IPO\u2014Cryptostocks, where Bitcoin Kinetics will be \u201clisted,\u201d describes itself as both a crowd funding platform and a place [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,43,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-business","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65039,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122\/revisions\/65039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}