{"id":441510,"date":"2022-04-19T07:11:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T05:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=441510"},"modified":"2022-04-19T07:15:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T05:15:49","slug":"crypto-exchange-blockchain-com-going-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/441510-crypto-exchange-blockchain-com-going-public.html","title":{"rendered":"Crypto exchange Blockchain.com going public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency startup\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blockchain.com\/about\/?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=search&amp;utm_campaign=brandexactus&amp;campaignid=16369538125&amp;adgroupid=137291552281&amp;adid=583858561646&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMIzq34ruOe9wIVQyGtBh24YwHmEAAYASABEgLwIvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blockchain.com<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is interviewing banks for an initial public offering that could take place as soon as this year, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>An IPO might not happen until next year and the company\u2019s plans could change, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the discussions were private.<\/p>\n<p>A representative for the company declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Blockchain.com, a rival to cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc., said in March that it was valued at about $14 billion (R205.6 billion) in a funding round.<\/p>\n<p>That financing was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with major participation from Baillie Gifford &amp; Co., Blockchain.com said.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2011, Blockchain.com allows users to buy and store digital tokens such as Bitcoin and is led by Chief Executive Officer Peter Smith.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/441376-cryptocurrency-war-governments-and-big-banks-are-afraid.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cryptocurrency war \u2014 Governments and big banks are afraid<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency startup\u00a0Blockchain.com\u00a0is interviewing banks for an initial public offering that could take place as soon as this year, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":441512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44696],"tags":[77956,41576,48303],"class_list":["post-441510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-blockchain-com","tag-coinbase","tag-cryptocurrency-exchanges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441514,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441510\/revisions\/441514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}