Overstock.com, Inc. is an American internet retailer headquartered in Midvale, Utah, near Salt Lake City. Patrick M. Byrne founded the company in 1997 and launched the company in May 1999.

On January 9, 2014, Overstock.com became the first major retailer to start accepting bitcoin as payments for its goods. In the first 22 hours, they received over 800 orders worth US $126,000 in bitcoin. This represents a 4.33% increase in sales from their normal income of $3 million per day.

On August 2018, it was reported that Overstock.com shares increased 17% after a “major Chinese equity firm agreed to invest in tZERO, the blockchain subsidiary vying to reshape the investment world through a SEC-regulated alternative trading system (ATS).” tZero is an Overstock.com blockchain subsidiary.

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