bitcoin.com

As a cryptocurrency company, Bitcoin.com provides products, services, and information related to the purchasing, selling, storing, and using of cryptocurrencies.{{Cite web |date=2022-01-25 |title=Tales from the crypto: lira crisis fuels Bitcoin boom in Turkey |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jan/21/tales-from-the-crypto-lira-crisis-fuels-bitcoin-boom-in-turkey |access-date=2022-07-07 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Bitcoin.com co-founder sells all his Bitcoin, citing 'high risk' |url=https://finance.nine.com.au/executive-suite/bitcoin-dot-com-cofounder-sells-all-of-his-bitcoin/5f0b8e32-af0a-44ef-b703-2b657b309eb1#:~:text=Bitcoin.com%20was%20founded%20in%202011%20and%20offers%20investors%20services%20such%20as%20a%20Bitcoin%20exchange,%20a%20digital%20wallet,%20Bitcoin%20gambling%20and%20online%20forums. |access-date=2022-07-07 |website=finance.nine.com.au}}

Bitcoin.com's flagship product is the Bitcoin.com Wallet, a platform for buying, selling, trading, holding, using, and managing cryptocurrencies.{{Cite web |last=Gershgorn |first=Dave |date=2017-12-13 |title=How to give the gift of bitcoin this holiday season |url=https://qz.com/1153018/how-to-give-the-gift-of-bitcoin-btc-this-holiday-season/ |access-date=2022-07-07 |website=Quartz |language=en}} The Bitcoin.com Wallet was launched in June 2017 as a mobile app.{{Cite web |date=2021-07-27 |title=The best Bitcoin apps |url=https://www.information-age.com/best-bitcoin-apps-123467034/ |access-date=2022-07-07 |website=Information Age |language=en}}

The Bitcoin.com domain name was first registered in 2000 to the Swedish company Hurricane Communication AB. The company let it lapse, and, in 2003, it was picked up by Korean-based IVN Technology, which held the domain until 2005. The domain lay fallow until January 2008, when Jesse Heitler registered the name again. Heitler held on until July 2010, when he got an offer for $2,000.{{cite news |last1=Paul |first1=Vigna |last2=Michael |first2=Casey |date=2014-04-22 |title=BitBeat: The Men Who Owned Bitcoin.com |publisher=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-MBB-19973}} The domain subsequently changed hands a few times with no significant web activity.

The history of bitcoin being registered in 2000, is False there is no such history that has ever been proven, the only proven registry for bitcoin.com is in 2008 which was in January 1, 2008 eight months and 18 days before bitcoin.org was registered, the person whom registered bitcoin.com and bitcoin.org was the same person who created bitcoin, and whom used Satoshi Nakamoto as an alias name in place of the creator of bitcoin, this alleged allegation of this history of it being registered in 2000 is completely false and not true. When the creator of the white paper decided to open source the code and the idea of bitcoin as a MIT License, the creator of bitcoin decided to use bitcoin.org and not bitcoin.com and therefore at the time did not see a need to keep bitcoin.com. The creator of bitcoin, did not realize bitcoin would be anything given that he couldn't obtain a money transmitting license and therefore, decided to opensource bitcoin as a p2p network, using the bitcoin.org so Satoshi created both bitcoin.com and bitcoin.org. there is a lot of mis-conception being told here about bitcoin.com, there never has been true verification of bitcoin.com in its notion it was created in 2000. this is a way cover domain purchases of the first domain Satoshi Nakamoto being created because the domain were both purchases using debit cards. the historical facts on this Wikipedia about bitcoin is untrue and there is no documentation of it.

Roger Ver, then gained control of the Bitcoin.com domain name in April 2014,{{Cite news |last=Casey |first=Paul Vigna and Michael J. |date=2014-04-22 |title=BitBeat: The Men Who Owned Bitcoin.com |language=en-US |work=Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-MBB-19973 |access-date=2021-10-21 |issn=0099-9660}} where he leased it to Blockchain.info{{Cite news |last=Vigna |first=Paul |date=2014-04-17 |title=Blockchain Buys Rights to Bitcoin.com Domain Name |language=en-US |work=Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-MBB-19768 |access-date=2021-10-21 |issn=0099-9660}} and then later to OKCoin.{{cite news |last1=Casey |first1=M.J. |last2=Vigna |first2=Paul |date=2014-04-17 |title=BitBeat: What's in a Name? A Lot, if It's Bitcoin.com. |work=Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-MBB-19763 |access-date=2021-10-16}} In May 2015, the 5-year agreement was terminated by OKCoin who issued a statement{{Cite web |date=2015-06-13 |title=OKCoin no longer managing Bitcoin.com due to contract conflict with domain owner |url=http://blog.okcoin.com/post/119618822939/okcoin-no-longer-managing-bitcoincom-due-to |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222210234/http://blog.okcoin.com/post/119618822939/okcoin-no-longer-managing-bitcoincom-due-to#_=_ |archive-date=2015-12-22 |access-date=2021-11-02 |website=OKCoin}} claiming the agreement regarding the domain was invalid due to the entity named in the documents not being representative of the actual company. Ver sued OKCoin's Hong Kong entity over contract breaches{{Cite news |last=Lee |first=Eddie |date=2016-09-22 |title=Bitcoin investor sues Hong Kong firm over alleged contract breaches |work=South China Morning Post |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2021631/bitcoin-investor-sues-hong-kong-firm-over-contract-breaches |access-date=2021-11-02}} and was awarded a $570,000 judgement by a Hong Kong court in November 2017.{{Citation needed|date=October 2022}}

In May 2020, former Apple and Rakuten senior manager Dennis Jarvis was appointed CEO of Bitcoin.com. Jarvis redefined Bitcoin.com's vision to more broadly support the concept of ‘economic freedom’ rather than promote a specific cryptocurrency.{{Cite web |last=Cabral |first=Alvin R. |date=2021-10-28 |title=Decentralised finance can increase economic freedom, Bitcoin.com chief says |url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/technology/2021/10/28/decentralised-finance-can-increase-economic-freedom-bitcoincom-chief-says/ |access-date=2022-07-07 |website=The National |language=en}}

In April 2021, the Bitcoin.com domain was erroneously listed for sale on Godaddy. This prompted site owner Roger Ver to demand the domain registrar and web hosting company remove the $100 million listing, which it did without providing further explanation.{{Cite news |last=Hackney |first=Raymond |date=2021-04-05 |title=GoDaddy takes down $100m listing for Bitcoin.com |work=The Domains |url=https://www.thedomains.com/2021/04/05/godaddy-takes-down-100m-listing-for-bitcoin-com/ |access-date=2021-12-10}}

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