Topic: [IPVO] [Multiple Exchanges] Neo & Bee - LMB Holdings - page 125. (Read 658701 times)

I'm assuming he meant if they were mentioned by name in the WSJ they wouldn't be ready to accommodate people.

Oh?

Thanks for the info, keep up the good work!

Just a quick question: what has MtGox to do with .cy domains? I checked on http://www.marcaria.com/ and bitcoin.com.cy shows as available

Please note that this not an official support forum.

If you have questions, or seek info/updates regarding NEOBEE, please check your host exchange first, and if the info you need isn't in the prospectus or updates, simply email us.

More reminders will be sent about migration requirements, and I am currently reviewing the official investor relations site that Danny and his team have prepared.

There are a lot of loose ends for us to tie with the recent exchanges closing, but we'll get everything handled in due time.

Thank you!

Apologies for the lack of response. I have not long been back in Cyprus following a business trip to London.

I did say a merchant was pushing to have it published in the WSJ. 

I have the domain bitcoincyprus.com, we did try and register the name bitcoin.com.cy however Mt Gox wouldn't provide the permission required because they dont want corporations to hold the domain, which is understandable.

One of the reasons why we are not mentioned by name in the articles is due to the fact it has already got many people asking how do I get Bitcoin. We are ahead of schedule but we still will not be in a position to open the branches to make it easy for people. However it has brought great awareness about Bitcoin in Cyprus.

Thanks for this. 

Guy's how much effort does it take to write a few words and give a polite reply?  I checked the first page and couldn't make sense of the TAT passthrough reference.

I'm only able to move shares today (if I need to) or after next week and I don't want to lose these shares by missing a deadline.

Thanks in advance. I appreciate this isn't a busy thread and so perhaps my request hasn't been read that many times.  

WOULD HAVE BEEN WONDERFUL TO HAVE THE NAME OF NEO & BEE BEING MENTIONED IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Nice job, and big respect to the university. Glad I'm taking part of it as an earl investor...

 Funny thing ) checked the domain XBTCyprus_com (to register) and it was taken by:

Antonis Polemitis

    New York, New York
    Venture Capital & Private Equity

Current   

    Ledra Capital, LLC,
    EdEx - University of Nicosia,
    Global Learning Semesters Inc.

That's how journalism works. They don't mention specific brand unless it is important for the story. As it should be.

Any takers?

Of course it's Neo&Bee. No other Cypriot company there that does what they do.

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/11/22/the-university-of-bitcoin-rises-in-cyprus/

THIS IS FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE!!

DANNY, THE CYPRIOT COMPANY THAT WILL UNDERTAKE ALL PAYMENTS MENTIONED IN THE ARTICLE (The university itself is working with a Cypriot company that will handle the transactions on its behalf)

IS NEO & BEE, RIGHT??


3:49 pm

Nov 22, 2013

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

By Paul Vigna

University of Nicosia

It’s been a hyperkinetic week for bitcoin. The virtual currency’s value shot through the digital roof amid a Senate hearing on crypto currencies that was generally supportive. On some exchanges, bitcoin’s value briefly touched $900. If that isn’t high enough, Richard Branson is talking about taking bitcoin as payment for trips to space.

But one rather mundane news story might be the most significant of all: The University of Nicosia in Cyprus announced it will accept bitcoin as payment, for everything from tuition to rent to books at the bookstore and meals in the cafeteria. The school also announced a master’s level course of study in digital currency, one that is aimed not at bitcoiners themselves, but at business professionals, government officials and anybody seeking to learn about the field.

“We might be seeing the advent of the Internet of money right before our eyes,” Dr. Christos Vlachos, the university’s chief financial officer, told MoneyBeat in a phone interview from Nicosia. “We are possibly at the commencement of a new era.”

What’s most interesting about this announcement, to anybody concerned with the long-term prospects for bitcoin, is that the move didn’t come as a result of Cyprus’s banking crisis this year. Rather, it was simply in response to students, many of them overseas, asking for it. This speaks not to bitcoin’s potential as a end-run around the much derided “fiat currencies,” or as a source of a Pets.com-like boom and bust, but simply to its utility as a way for people to conduct their day-to-day routines.

“It has nothing to do with the banking crisis,” Dr. Vlachos said. “We have a university that has students all over the world, Africa, Asia, Europe. We’ve been getting requests for the last couple of months to take bitcoins.” He noted a large number of the requests came countries like Kenya, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, China, Vietnam, and Bangladesh, where some students have less access to, and higher costs from, traditional banking systems.

The university, the largest private school in Cyprus,  has about 8,500 students, strung across its Nicosia campus, affiliated schools like the medical program it runs with St. George’s University of London, and an online program. The university dug into bitcoin, and studied it – “we did undertake a very serious study,” he said – and came to the conclusion it would be something that could help its students, that it would be quicker and more convenient. “We said, why not?”

The school expects initially that several hundred students may take advantage of bitcoin, Dr. Vlachos said, but in the years to come he thinks it will become a mainstream form of payment. The university itself is working with a Cypriot company that will handle the transactions on its behalf, converting any payments in bitcoin into euros at prevailing rates. The school isn’t looking to profit off this, he stressed.

“We believe the program we’re launching will be of great interest, not just to consumers, but to bankers, regulators, government officials, reporters,” he said. “This will affect the society at large. This will affect the society as a whole.”

Sorry for the late question - I have stepped away from bitcoin for a while and I come back to the closure of bitfunder. I have a small amount of shares still on bitfunder - is there a process to get them moved to another exchange?

Do you know if there will be a streaming of the Cyprus Investor Show?

thanks for the links man.

Oh snap!
http://imgur.com/losHESs

From the Indian Times.

Congrats on the recent announcement.  Nice to see great publicity like today's news.

Apologies for asking this, you must get it all the time, but I don't frequent this thread often.

My shares are still on Bitfunder and I'm from the UK.  Am I right to say that I'm doing the right thing leaving them where they are as we are expecting a solution soon in terms of an exchange.

Thanks.

Dude, you need to turn your caps lock off!