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Bittylicious Blog Bittylicious turns five years old May 22 Today, on Bitcoin Pizza Day , Bittylicious celebrates its fifth birthday since incorporation way back in 2013. It has been, by far, the busiest year in Bittylicious’s history and is the year that Bittylicious really took off from the geeky underground and made it mainstream. Thank you! We owe our success to those who have introduced Bittylicious to friends and family via word of mouth and personal recommendations. From the outset, we have worked hard getting ourselves known in the local communities, specific forums and generally being Good Guys, and this groundwork has resulted in Bittylicious now being the go to place for many users. It goes without saying that we couldn’t have done it without the amazing work our brokers perform, offering world class support, speedy delivery of coins and great prices. These guys work hard and it’s hugely appreciated every time a user reports positive feedback with our brokers. And none of this would have been possible without our excellent staff who were willing to put in the extra help when things were silly busy (December 2017, anyone?) and the many trusted people who assisted with profile verification during these peak periods. What have we achieved? Here are some of the highlights from the last year. Summer 2017 The summer of 2017 saw us publicly support the UASF project which ultimately resulted in SegWit being finally implemented and the future of Bitcoin looking much brighter. We fully ran a UASF node until SegWit was locked in (at which point it was unnecessary). One of our proudest moments. Winter 2017 Bitcoin Cash was integrated in November 2017 owing to user demand, available for bank transfer and card sales. We have an intimate QA session at New River Studios in Dalston, London, mainly with an aim to spread the word about cryptocurrencies. The price hit $10,000 that night. Coincidence? December 2017 happened. An absolutely insane month at Bittylicious where on one day, over £1.4 million was traded. We did better than many others, with verifications taking 72 hours at its absolute worst. We did not turn away any signups. Q1 2018 Bittylicious signed a deal to display advertising against Rugby League and Cricket ODE and T/Twenty matches. You will be able to see us on pitchside banners until the end of summer. The integration with ihavebeenpwned was completed in February to protect users from insecure passwords. Throughout 2018, Bittylicious integrated with new credit card providers for resilience and we also negotiated cuts in prices in March. SegWit became fully supported with the release of Bitcoin Core 0.16, including full bech32 addresses. Q2 2018 Bittylicious launched (softly) in Australia in April and now serves Australian users 24/7. In April, Bittylicious reached 1,000 reviews on TrustPilot with a 9.5 rating. Customer support is key and is the basis of our entire company. And in general over the last year The media has been good to us – we have been featured and had interviews on BBC Radio Sheffield , BBC News 24, Financial Times , BBC Radio 4 (Moneybox) , The Telegraph , The Metro , The Guardian , iNews , Soho Radio and Evening Standard . Four cryptocurrencies were integrated into Bittylicious and available for credit card sales – DigiByte, Groestlcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Vertcoin. Statistics And our vital statistics for the last year, 22nd May 2017 – 21st May 2018: 220,000 trades completed. £99 million traded. 67,000 new user sign ups. 150,000 pieces of documentation verified. Going forwards It’s near impossible to plan for the long term in the cryptocurrency world, but in the next year, we will hopefully give Bittylicious a long overdue facelift, integrate more coins, offer more payment methods and generally make Bittylicious better and better. Thank you once again to all our lovely customers and please continue spreading the word! Marc CEO, Bittylicious Press Releases 0 Comment Have I Been Pwned? Feb 27 Bittylicious is now integrated with the excellent have i been pwned service created by well known security expert, Troy Hunt . This service collates used passwords from breaches and dumps when company data has been compromised. For each user that newly logs in, Bittylicious will interrogate with the service to determine whether the password being used by the Bittylicious user is one that is commonly used and has been listed in one of many breaches. This means that from now onwards: Users will not be able to change their password to one that is very well known, i.e. used regularly by many others and appears in multiple lists. Privileged users (brokers and administrators) will not be able to use the service if their password is in any single list at all; the password will need to be changed before the service can be used. We also intend on making other changes in the future, e.g. possibly decreasing limits if the account is more likely to be compromised, but we will assess the impact this has first. If you’re a developer with any sort of sensitive service, consider also integrating. It’s a great project and a useful tool in the arsenal against compromised accounts. Uncategorized Comments Off on Have I Been Pwned? DigiByte and Groestlcoin now on Bittylicious Jan 11 Two new altcoins have been added to the Bittylicious exchange: DigiByte and Groestlcoin. These are both instantly available for purchasing via bank transfer (British Pounds), credit cards (in British Pounds, Euros and US Dollars) and SEPA transfers (Euros). DigiByte is a quick coin with 15 second block timings, and was an early adopter of Segregated Witness. It also uses five different hashing algorithms in order to make it resistant to 51% attacks, and is GPU miner friendly. Groestlcoin uses Grøstl-512 as its mining algorithm which is ASIC resistant and efficient, and thus ideal for GPU miners and associated centralisation. SegWit and the Lightning Network is also enabled, and there is a strong focus on anonymous transactions. Uncategorized Comments Off on DigiByte and Groestlcoin now on Bittylicious Let’s Sport Dec 17 Bittylicious is proud to have acquired media rights for TV signage for various sports including Rugby Union and Cricket T20. Pitchside sponsorship at London Scottish vs Richmond on 3rd December 2017 Bittylicious has 24 metres of signage positioned at the front row ground level, opposite the main TV camera arc. The aim is to get viewers and the audience to consider trading Bitcoin, and obviously using Bittylicious to achieve this. The banner has already been shown on Sky Sports Action HD in the first Rugby Union women club match ever on 3rd December 2017 , and later on that day in the Pro14 London Scottish vs Richmond match. The upcoming fixtures where you will see the Bittylicious banner is as follows: 29th December 2017 Rugby Union: Doncaster vs Yorkshire Carnegie, Sky Sports Action 10th February 2018 Ealing Trailfinders v Bristol, Sky Sports Action 18th May 2018 Cricket: Royal London 50 DURHAM v YORKSHIRE 29th May 2018 Cricket: Royal London 50 KENT SPITFIRES v SOMERSET 10th June 2018 Cricket: 1 day International SCOTLAND v ENGLAND Edinburgh 12th June 2018 Cricket: T/Twenty SCOTLAND v PAKISTAN Edinburgh 13th June 2018 Cricket: T/Twenty SCOTLAND v PAKISTAN Edinburgh 14th June 2018 Cricket: Royal London 50 Qtr Finals (TBC) Other 2018 dates are yet to be decided, but there will be in total: 4 x Rugby Union Championship / Guinness Pro14 matches. 10 x Cricket T20 Blast matches. 2 x Women’s 6 Nations 2018 matches. 2 x Women’s Super League cricket. Three month campaign on Internet radio station Cyber Hot Hits. In The Media Comments Off on Let’s Sport StartCOIN facing removal Mar 03 Sales of StartCOIN on the Bittylicious platform have been extremely low in the last few months meaning it is sadly facing removal from the platform. The last sale was on 19th December 2016 for around £50 and there has not been a single sale in 2017 yet. To declutter the platform and...