Sultan says so

Bitcoin exchange Paybase Monday has shutdown withdrawals from its users, causing a fury on Twitter and throughout their user base, as another exchange closure is feared. Paybase founder Josh Garza has been unavailable for comments, with many users claiming he blocks their account if pressed on this issue on Twitter. Garza has a controlling interest in the Bitcoin mining firm GAW Miners, along with many altcoin ventures. Paybase started to experience trading issues in January when the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) began an investigation. This led to accusations that Paybase and GAW Miners were executing “fraudulent conduct in the sales of securities” with regard to the sale of their Paycoin digital currency. Like many altcoins, users are able to buy into Paycoin by exchanging Bitcoin, and Paybase would handle the transaction on it’s exchange. Paybase has a checkered past when it comes to withdrawals. All withdrawals were suspended from February 27th, 2015 to March 8th, 2...

Earlier this week, CoinDesk’s Pete Rizzo reported on Gyft CEO Vinny Lingham‘s appearance at this year’s SXSW conference. Lingham was featured on a bitcoin-related panel with Boost VC Founder Adam Draper, Chain Founder Adam Ludwin, and Changetip Founder Nick Sullivan. It was during this panel that the Gyft CEO announced his companies intentions to “tokenize” gift cards and issue them as colored coins http://coloredcoins.org/ on top of the bitcoin blockchain. Read More: Issuing gift cards as colored coins Colored coins are a way to tokenize bitcoins for other uses. For example, you could say that a particular bitcoin represents $1000 in a vault somewhere, a deed to a house, or in this case a gift card. Once you tokenize a bitcoin, the value that it represents can then be transmitted across the world in the same instant and secure manner as a normal bitcoin. Lingham noted, “We can use this technology to make sure that consumer gift cards are protected, that counterparty risk is man...