{"id":"tp-2335","type":"article-newspaper","title":"Bakkt hires former Google consultant as pressures to release crypto product increase","author":"Melvin Alfred Wong","publisher":"TOKENPOST Inc.","url":"https://www.tokenpost.com/news/business/2335","datePublished":"2019-06-23T14:09:49.000Z","dateModified":"2019-06-23T14:09:49.000Z","language":"en","abstract":"The pressure for Bakkt – the cryptocurrency initiative meant to make the trading and investment using bitcoin easier – to release a crypto product is increasing. The project did receive funding worth $182 million to d…","section":"Business","references":[{"title":"The Block","url":"https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2019/06/20/bakkt-brings-on-google-ux-expert-as-it-builds-its-consumer-app-for-spending-cryptocurrency/"},{"title":"Blockonomi","url":"https://blockonomi.com/bakkt-developing-crypto-app-bitcoin-futures-launch-nears/"}]}