{"id":48,"date":"2016-04-13T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.holytransaction.com\/airbnb-hires-changetip-employees\/"},"modified":"2016-04-13T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T16:17:00","slug":"airbnb-hires-changetip-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holytransaction.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/airbnb-hires-changetip-employees.html","title":{"rendered":"AirBnB hires ChangeTip employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nRecently <b>Airbnb<\/b> co-founder <b>Nathan Blecharczyk<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/holytransaction.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/airbnb-wants-to-use-blockchain.html\">annonunced the possible blockchain application among the company plans for this year.&nbsp;<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAnd now, the company hired several employees from the bitcoin service called <b>ChangeTip<\/b>.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAmong the people hired by AirBnB there is ChangeTip\u2019s CEO and co-founder <b>Nick Sullivan<\/b>.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nUnfortunately we don\u2019t have more details yet.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-UxOqMlaYCXE\/Vw5wd2s33SI\/AAAAAAAAAXo\/GGDnayTWWYccT9mQUvy-_ekTLVpRG5DQQCLcB\/s1600\/ChangeTip.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"changetip logo\" border=\"0\" height=\"246\" src=\"https:\/\/holytransaction.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ChangeTip.jpg\" title=\"changetip airbnb blockchain\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nBlockchain Project for AirBnb<\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThis news is the pure expression of the optimism that AirBnb has for its blockchain project.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAs we previously reported, Blecharczyk explained that blockchain is in the company\u2019s mind.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThese were Blecharczyk words:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<i>\u201cI think that, within the context of Airbnb, your reputation is everything, and I can see it being even more so in the future, whereby you might need a certain reputation order to have access to certain types of homes. But then the question is whether there\u2019s a way to export that and allow access elsewhere to help other sharing economy models really flourish. We\u2019re looking for all different kinds of signals to tell us whether someone is reputable, and I could certainly see some of these more novel types of signals being plugged into our engine\u201d.<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nChangeTip funds<\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nRecenlty, on December 2014 ChangeTip raised <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/changetip-seed-round-bitcoin-micropayments\/\">$3.5m in seed funding<\/a> for its micropayments platform.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe round was guided by Pantera Capital, according to a ChangeTip\u2019s press release.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nOther participants in the round were 500 Startups, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boldstart.vc\/\">Boldstart Ventures<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptocurrencypartners.com\/\">CryptoCurrency Partners<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idealab.com\/\">Idealab<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-JrNqe9Ufa_I\/Vw5xWCp-4uI\/AAAAAAAAAXw\/EJOxc4AkjqAd7AI4nICt6wyrYtR5FhGiw\/s1600\/HTBannerOrange.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"holytransaction logo\" border=\"0\" height=\"166\" src=\"https:\/\/holytransaction.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/HTBannerOrange-5.png\" title=\"holytransaction wallet\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<b>Multicurrency Wallet<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/holytransaction.com\/\">Do you like cryptocurrencies? 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