**On today’s episode of The Cryptoverse:**
Circle, one of the largest venture capital-backed Bitcoin startups in Europe, officially terminated its Bitcoin trading services and has launched a Bitcoin Blockchain-based remittance and messaging application to serve the unbanked.
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**Sources:**
[Original Article on Coin Telegraph](https://cointelegraph.com/news/circle-terminates-bitcoin-trading-focuses-on-next-generation-platform)
[Circle’s Blog Post About Spark](https://blog.circle.com/2016/12/06/spark-new-markets-app-messaging-and-bitcoin-changes/)
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whats the last track you use?
bitsquare should get more traffic now.
what's wrong with coinbase been using it for a year or more? is gdax affected since its part of coinbase
I was using Circle and found this very disappointing, as it was easy to use. Do you have any suggestions of who to use?? Thanks in advance
Good episode! I agree with everything you said Chris. I was an avid user of Circle, it was my gateway to poloniex, this sudden move by Circle left me in the lurch!
Circle was a great tool for converting USD to Bitcoin. Sorry to see this service go. Time to cancel my account with them and move on.
Looks like the IRS is going to create it's own worst enemy. Their harassment of Coinbase will force bitcoin to further disconnect from the conventional economy and encourage further development of decentralized bitcoin exchanges.
It is so true! If you don't hold the Keys it is not your money!
I use the site not the app to but btc hopefully that's the same, I have to check
This is not surprising. I assume the fed had something to do with it.
At it seems, 2017 will be the year that we'll see a boom in the anonymous crypto coins…
wtf. lame
I don't know anyone besides you that used Circle. If they are based in the USA it would make sense that they cancel BTC after the issues with Coinbase and the IRS.
Thank you for that update, it gives more reason to use Uphold.com to move Bitcoin in and out of my bank account.