Fintech
Digital technologies

Developing blockchain technologies in un-regulated markets

Academic partner:
McGill University
With the help of :
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

The year is 2014. Bitcoin is still in its infancy. Watch the story of BitAccess, a canadian company incubated at Invest Ottawa and accelerated Y Combinator.

Case study
Read the written BitAccess Case study authored by Dr. Hamid Etemad, McGill University and Dr. Hamed Motaghi, Université du Québec en Outaouais.
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Filmed in 2014 in Los Altos and Mountain View California, USA, at Y Combinator and 500 startup as well as at BitAccess’s rental home office at the time. Other film locations include Invest Ottawa’s offices in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and Decentral’s offices in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Participants: BitAccess Co-founders Haseeb Awan, Moe Adham, Vignesh Sundaresan and Ryan Wallace; Sam Atlman, Y Combinator; Justin Kan, Y Combinator. Bruce Lazenby, Invest Ottawa.

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