Coinbase, one of the largest and most prominent Bitcoin payment processing companies, has a new acquisition on their hands
That acquisition is Blockr, a blockchain explorer which “shows blocks in human readable format”.
Blockr, which spent six months in a private beta before launching to the public late last December, provides data for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Digitalcoin, Quark, Peercoin, and Megacoin. Aside from a blockchain explorer, it also provides a price index, the last block created, and the level of mining difficulty.
To facilitate the transfer from Blockr to Coinbase, two of its founders, software engineer Saso Matejina and designer Samo Drole, have relocated from Slovenia to San Francisco to work for Coinbase.
Blockr caught Coinbase’s attention “earlier this year with its sleek, intuitive design and API,” the company said on a post on their official blog.
What isn’t clear at this point is what Coinbase plans on doing with their new acquisition, but Matejina and Drole will be working on further developing Coinbase’s API.
Coinbase Acquires Blockr
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