AboutIt was Patrick Byrne's pro-freedom views that pushed Overstock.com to become the first company with more than $1 million in annual sales to accept Bitcoin as a form of payment in 2012.
Byrne soon became very familiar with this unique digital currency and the blockchain technology that made it work. He used this new knowledge to start Medici Ventures. Overstock.com was a subsidiary of Medici at the time. In 2015, Byrne used Medici's ability to trade securities to become the first person to buy a digital bond on the Bitcoin blockchain. |