Months before bitcoin payments startup Zap announced a coveted partnership with Visa V , the rapidly rising firm quietly raised $3.5 million, according to previously unreported documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. “Our users today, don't ever know we're using bitcoin when they're using dollars. “I know bitcoin well, I know markets and trading well, and I know engineering well, and that's it though,” says Mallers. Founded in 2017, the C corporation first launched a self-titled open source lightning network desktop wallet for Mac, Windows and Linux. He hopes the Lightning Network itself will allow him to succeed where others have struggled.

Source: Forbes July 15, 2020 20:37 UTC