GoMining Taps Uphold to Run the Regulated Machinery Behind Its 5 Million-User Bitcoin App

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Here is the unglamorous truth about consumer crypto: the interface is maybe a tenth of the product. Anyone can ship a slick app that shows a Bitcoin balance going up.

What separates a toy from a financial platform is everything the user never sees: the identity checks that satisfy three regulators on two continents, the fraud engine watching every card transaction, the custody architecture holding the assets, and the liquidity plumbing that decides whether a customer's buy order fills at a fair price or a bad one.

GoMining just made a decision about that invisible nine-tenths, and it is one of the more instructive infrastructure deals in crypto this year. The company, which has grown a tokenized-hashrate experiment into a Bitcoin superapp with 5 million users and a top-10 global position by hashrate, has integrated Uphold's Platform-as-a-Service to run its digital asset operations end to end. Upholdtakes onboarding,...

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