Blockchain technology firm Bitfury is looking to reinforce its software unit with two executive-level hires.
Announced today, Marina Khaustova, former chief marketing officer and co-founder of Element Capital Group, has joined Bitfury as the CEO of Crystal Blockchain, the company's analytical tool for investigating public blockchain transactions. Meanwhile, Chris Dickson, previously at enterprise software vendor Panaya, joined Bitfury as head of software sales.
Both are newly created positions, underscoring the increasing importance of diversified software offerings to Bitfury, which started in 2012 as a bitcoin mining operation. It entered the enterprise blockchain software business in 2017 with the launch of Exonum, its blockchain infrastructure aimed at enterprise users. Also in 2017, Bitfury launched an app for payments on bitcoin's layer 2 lightning network.