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16.10.2024 | African Startups: The Global Stage Awaits | African startups are on the brink of a revolution. They are not just local players anymore; they are eyeing the global stage. Investors are taking notice. The message is clear: financial backing is crucial for these ambitious ventures. The ... |
10.10.2024 | African startups need financial backing for global ambitions, says VCs | African startups can build solutions that are scalable across the global market, investors who spoke at Moonshot by TechCabal on Thursday said. They need support in terms of funding, access to networks and market knowledge to achieve global... |
07.09.2024 | The Regulatory Storm: Uniswap and the Crypto Frontier | The cryptocurrency landscape is a wild frontier. A place where innovation meets regulation. Recently, the New York State Attorney General, Letitia James, has turned her gaze toward Uniswap, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform. This scru... |
05.09.2024 | Crypto Payments Firm BCB Group Has Received Takeover Interest: Sources
$572 Million Lost to Hacks and Fraud in Q2 -Immunefi | BCB Group has received a takeover approach from an investor.
The approach came while the crypto payments firm was exploring a series B funding round.
The business is not formally up for sale and there are no ongoing negotiations, one source... |
04.09.2024 | VC Giants a16z, Union Square Ventures Get Subpoenaed by New York About Uniswap: Sources | New York State Attorney General Letitia James has joined a regulatory offensive against cryptocurrency trading platform Uniswap, according to internal communications regarding the NYAG subpoenas seen by CoinDesk and two people who are famil... |
26.07.2024 | The Ripple Effect of Mt. Gox: A Crypto Market on Edge**
** | ** The crypto world is a volatile sea, and recent waves are sending ripples through the market. The long-awaited distribution of nearly $9 billion in assets from the infamous Mt. Gox exchange is set to begin. This event is like a storm brew... |
24.07.2024 | Bitstamp to Start Distributing Mt. Gox Proceeds on Thursday
Cost of Not Enacting Crypto Regulation Is 'Extremely High,' Legal Expert Says | Bitstamp's action follows reports by creditors receiving assets on Kraken on Wednesday.
The prices of bitcoin and bitcoin cash declined after the news.
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17.07.2024 | South African Fintech Raises $300,000 Funding from Silicon Valley and New York-Based Investors | Share this:
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02.07.2024 | DCG, Top Executives Renew Push to Get New York AG’s Civil Fraud Suit Dropped | Lawyers for Digital Currency Group, Barry Silbert and Michael Moro filed responses to New York Attorney General Letitia James' latest effort to support a lawsuit against the crypto company and executives.
The NYAG's office sued DCG and the ... |
07.06.2024 | New York AG Pushes Back Against DCG, Silbert’s Motion to Dismiss Fraud Case | New York Attorney General Letitia James is not backing down from her lawsuit against Digital Currency Group, its founder and CEO Barry Silbert, and Soichiro “Michael” Moro, the former CEO of DCG’s wholly-owned crypto trading arm, Genesis.
O... |
24.05.2024 | 3 Questions About the SEC’s Abrupt ETH ETF Approval | The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) confirmed yesterday it has approved critical rule changes to allow for exchange-traded funds holding Ethereum’s native token, ETH. A lot of people were caught off guard, considering that jus... |
20.05.2024 | Grayscale chief Michael Sonnenshein resigns, to be succeeded by Goldman exec | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Michael Sonnenshein has stepped down as chief of Grayscale Investments, the issuer behind the largest spot bitcoin fund best known by its ticker, GBTC.
Why it matters: Prior to bitcoin ETF approvals i... |
22.02.2024 | Testnet Launch for dWallet Network – Composable Modular Signature Network | Tel Aviv, Israel, February 22nd, 2024, Chainwire
dWallet Labs today announced the Testnet launch of dWallet Network – a first-of-its-kind composable modular signature network. The dWallet Network introduces a new primitive for multi-chain ... |
20.11.2023 | NYSE ex-president's crypto exchange buys CoinDesk | A crypto exchange run by former New York Stock Exchange President Tom Farley has acquired crypto media publication CoinDesk.
Driving the news: CoinDesk is staying in the crypto family.
CoinDesk is the most well-known crypto news outlet and ... |
21.02.2023 | Что учесть, чтобы грамотно презентовать продукт Web 3.0 | Web 3.0 vs Web 2.0
Основное различие между этими двумя направлениями — в ориентации на централизованные и децентрализованные технологии.
Web 2.0 работает в рамках текущей версии интернета. Это поколение интернета принесло нам социальные сет... |
31.01.2023 | Lost your crypto amid Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings? You’re probably not getting it back | If you lost access to your money when the crypto firm holding your assets filed for bankruptcy, then you’re probably out of luck getting it back.
As Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings move forward for several big-name crypto companies, those... |
19.01.2023 | DCG’s crypto-lending subsidiary Genesis files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy | Genesis Global Trading, a subsidiary of the crypto conglomerate Digital Currency Group (DCG), filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) court late Thursday night.
Genesis Global Holdco and two of its lendin... |
01.06.2022 | Fabric Ventures wraps up $140 million venture fund to back Web3 startups | Luxembourg and London-based Web3 venture capital firm Fabric Ventures has wrapped up a $140 million venture fund, which is twice the original target and more than $30 million above the original hard cap. The platform has also announced the ... |
16.05.2022 | British crypto trading platform raises $70 million from Barclays and Goldman Sachs | Cryptocurrency trading platform Elwood Technologies founded by British hedge fund billionaire Alan Howard has raised $70 million in funding. The round was co-led by B2B investor Dawn Capital and Goldman Sachs, with participation from Barcla... |
05.05.2022 | LFG Closes $1.5 Billion OTC Deal of UST for BTC with Genesis and Three Arrows Capital (3AC) for the UST Forex Reserve | As the leading broker in digital currencies, Genesis’ participation displays the growing demand for decentralized stablecoins in the broader crypto market, helping to build bridges across crypto communities tied together by a common decentr... |
30.03.2022 | Bitcoin miners are dusting off Kentucky coal towns, spurred by state crypto tax incentives | Bitcoin mining rigs have been arriving in Kentucky by the truckload ever since Governor Andy Beshear passed two laws in March 2021 to incentivize bitcoin miners to establish roots in the southeastern state.
Senate Bill 255 extends the commo... |
23.03.2022 | Acala, VCs Commit $250M for Polkadot DeFi Investments | Some of crypto’s leading venture firms are teaming up to fuel decentralized finance (DeFi) on the Polkadot blockchain network.
Acala (ACA), a DeFi-focused network built on Polkadot, announced Wednesday it is launching a $250 million “aUSD E... |
17.03.2022 | Luno launches early-stage investment arm | Cryptocurrency company, Luno, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Digital Currency Group (“DCG”), has launched Luno Expeditions, a global, early-stage investment arm to support fintech and crypto/web3 founders on their journeys to build the next g... |
17.03.2022 | Luno launches early-stage investment arm | Cryptocurrency company, Luno, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Digital Currency Group (“DCG”), has launched Luno Expeditions, a global, early-stage investment arm to support fintech and crypto/web3 founders on their journeys to build the next g... |
16.03.2022 | Luno launches investment arm to back over 200 fintech and crypto/web3 startups yearly | Luno, a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group (DCG), today announced that it is launching Luno Expeditions, an early-stage investment arm to back fintech and crypto/web3 startups globally.
The fund will leverage DCG’s seven-year experience o... |
16.03.2022 | A fantastic February for African tech: Here’s what matters | After a dazzling January debut that saw Africa-focused tech startups raise over $430 million from roughly 60 announced deals, fundraising in February was similarly feverish. The shortest month of the year witnessed approximately 60 announce... |
07.03.2022 | Greenwashing, no more! London platform raises $5 million for transparency about sustainable impact of products | Four out of every five shoppers are changing their purchase preferences based on sustainability. However, a mere 53% of shoppers admit they can’t tell the truth apart from greenwashing when it comes to product claims.
Changing the scenario ... |
01.03.2022 | This sister-duo platform for Gen Z women wires in $2.2 million to make financial education inclusive | At a time when a mere 2.2% of funding went to female-led technology companies in 2021 and the year was touted as the worst year for VC funding in women-led startups, a London-based platform is focusing on the financial empowerment of women ... |
08.02.2022 | Dave Cantin Group (DCG) Announces It Closed Over $1 Billion in Total Acquisitions in 2021, Expectations High for 2022 | The Dave Cantin Group (DCG), one of the world’s largest automotive dealership M&A firms, announced it closed more than $1 billion in total automotive dealership acquisitions and completed approximately 40 total transactions in 2021, for... |
03.02.2022 | Kraken Launches Proof of Reserves Audits Allowing Clients to Verify Crypto Balances | Kraken, one of the world’s largest digital asset exchanges, is announcing its implementation of next-generation auditing standards designed to let clients prove their bitcoin and ether balances are backed by real assets held in our custody.... |
21.01.2022 | Important Disclosure About CoinDesk and Digital Currency Group
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Long-term orientation | Any for-profit news organization has to navigate a delicate balancing act to achieve quality, transparency and trust. At CoinDesk, we face a unique set of challenges because we are an independently operated, wholly owned subsidiary of Digit... |
19.01.2022 | Market Wrap: Bitcoin Stabilizes; Analysts See Relative Value in Altcoins | Bitcoin traded around the $41,000 on Wednesday as some traders appeared to be in no rush to pick a price bottom. Analysts see the potential for a short-term price bounce, especially as technical indicators have remained in oversold territor... |
22.12.2021 | SPACE secures $7M in funding for arts and commerce virtual projects | Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.
SPACE has raised $7 m... |
22.12.2021 | SPACE secures $7M in funding for arts and commerce virtual projects | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
SPACE has raised $7 million from multiple venture funds. The funding was provided in part by investors such as CoinFund, Dapper Labs, D... |
25.11.2021 | Grayscale-parent Digital Currency Group tops $10 billion valuation with SoftBank, Alphabet investments | - |
25.11.2021 | Staking Rewards secures CHF 3 million | |
18.11.2021 | Digital Currency Group Raises New $600 Million Credit Facility | Digital Currency Group (DCG) today announced the completion of a debt capital raise providing a credit facility up to $600 million. Eldridge led and served as administrative agent of the credit facility, which includes a syndicate of instit... |
02.11.2021 | Digital Currency Group raises $700M in secondary sale | Digital Currency Group has sold $700 million shares of stock in a private sale led by SoftBank, valuing the crypto conglomerate at more than $10 billion, according to reports. GIC Capital, Ribbit Capital and CapitalG also participated in th... |
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01.11.2021 | Having raised just $25 million, crypto conglomerate Digital Currency Group gets a $10 billion valuation | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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30.10.2021 | Bitcoin mining can be a 'bridge' to a renewable energy future by supporting green projects, a leading North American miner says | Bitcoin can be at the heart of the transition towards renewable energy, Foundry boss Mike Colyer said.
He said bitcoin mining can help renewable projects manage oversupply and support more investment.
Many remain unconvinced, with Bank of A... |
20.10.2021 | Digital Currency Group Announces $1 Billion Purchase Plan of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust | Digital Currency Group, Grayscale Investments' parent company, has been authorized for the purchase of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust shares worth $1 billion, according to Yahoo Finance. Previous authorization of Digital Currency Group has been st... |
14.10.2021 | Luno sees accelerated growth as customers reach 9m | Marius Reitz, Luno GM for Africa.
Home-grown crypto-currency exchange Luno now has nine million customers spanning over 40 countries.
Luno says it added one million new customers in the four months since June, with 30% of these based in SA.... |
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07.10.2021 | What Iceland’s Spectacular Banking Collapse Teaches Us About Tether | In 2008 and 2009, I was laser-focused on the global financial crisis. It impacted me directly because collapsing state budgets rugged my financial support just as I was finishing graduate school. Thanks to the shenanigans of low-rent mortga... |
09.09.2021 |
Barry Silbert | Barry Silbert is the founder of venture firm Digital Currency Group (DCG), crypto asset manager Grayscale Investments and illiquid assets marketplace SecondMarket.
Silbert founded SecondMarket in 2004, where he created the Bitcoin Investmen... |
28.08.2021 | Is now the right time to buy Bitcoin? | Luno, South Africa’s leading cryptocurrency exchange, says you are still an early adopter if you are buying crypto for the first time even now. “The world has just started to recognize the potential of cryptocurrencies, so there is definite... |
19.08.2021 | Crypto AM is delighted to announce Luno as the Platinum Partner | Luno has now been up and running in the UK for just over a year. In that time, we’ve become closely involved with Crypto AM and its founder, James Bowater’s work promoting the space. |
10.08.2021 | Horizen Labs Closes $7 Million Seed Round LED by Kenetic Capital, Digital Currency Group and Liberty City Ventures | The funding will support the development of the tooling needed for developers and businesses to deploy their own blockchains and decentralized applications
Horizen Labs, a blockchain technology company that enables the efficient development... |
06.08.2021 | Crypto AM Daily in association with Luno | Crypto at a glance |
29.07.2021 | Fabric Ventures launches $130 million fund to invest in digital assets and decentralisation, EIF on board | London’s Fabric Ventures has announced the launch of a new $130 million fund specifically targeting digital assets and decentralisation. With the European Investment Fund (EIF) and Luxembourg Future Fund contributing $30 million, Fabric now... |
13.04.2021 | Homegrown Luno Recorded R117 billion In Transactions Worldwide | wp_booster error:
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20.03.2021 | Bitcoin mining can be a ‘bridge’ to a renewable energy future by supporting green projects, a leading North American miner says | Bitcoin mining is hugely energy intensive, requiring vast amounts of computing power Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters
Bitcoin can be at the heart of the transition towards renewable energy, Foundry boss Mike Colyer said.
He said bitcoin mining ca... |
01.03.2021 | Luno Attracts A Million New Users In Seven Weeks And Ranks Sixth Globally | wp_booster error:
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01.03.2021 | African FinTech trends in a post-Covid world | Share this:
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26.01.2021 | MTN, Vodacom Could Partner With FinTechs To Pursue Mobile Payments in 2021 | Fintech (financial technology) on smart phone concept. Jirsak / Shutterstock.com
For the past two years, we published AlphaCode, South Africa’s leading FinTech thinkers, predictions about the financial technology (FinTech) landscape. We bel... |
26.01.2021 | MTN, Vodacom Could Partner With FinTechs To Pursue Mobile Payments in 2021 | Fintech (financial technology) on smart phone concept. Jirsak / Shutterstock.com |
25.01.2021 | Fintech 2021 predictions [Opinion] | Each year, at AlphaCode, we use our vantage point of the fintech landscape to share what we expect this year.
We had no idea last January that a whole new world awaited. One that would include global lockdowns, Zoombombing, covidiots, close... |
25.01.2021 | Fintech 2021 predictions [Opinion] | Each year, at AlphaCode, we use our vantage point of the fintech landscape to share what we expect this year.
We had no idea last January that a whole new world awaited. One that would include global lockdowns, Zoombombing, covidiots, clos... |
24.09.2020 | Read CoinDesk’s New, Expanded Ethics Policy | As part of our ongoing efforts to be maximally transparent and accountable to the community we serve, CoinDesk has substantially updated and expanded its ethics policy.
I encourage all readers to take a close look at the new page, which lay... |
09.09.2020 | Rand Merchant Investments & AlphaCode successfully exits investment in Luno | Share this:
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09.09.2020 | Digital asset exchange Luno is acquired By Digital Currency Group | Share this:
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09.09.2020 | New York-Based DCG Buys Naspers-Backed Luno | wp_booster error:
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09.09.2020 | Luno acquired by world’s largest blockchain investor | South African-founded Luno, the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has been acquired by Digital Currency Group (DCG), a global enterprise that builds, buys, and invests in blockchain companies.
Luno began in South Africa in 2013. I... |
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09.09.2020 | South African crypto startup Luno goes global | Luno, a South African founded cryptocurrency exchange, has been acquired by the world’s largest blockchain investor.
Luno, one of the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has been acquired by Digital Currency Group (DCG)
Digital Cur... |
09.09.2020 | South African crypto startup Luno goes global | Luno, a South African founded cryptocurrency exchange, has been acquired by the world’s largest blockchain investor.
Luno, one of the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has been acquired by Digital Currency Group (DCG)
Digital Curre... |
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30.07.2020 | Circle Gets $25M From DCG to Drive USDC Mainstream | USDC backer Circle is teaming with Genesis Trading in a $25 million deal aimed at pushing the stablecoin to the fintech masses.
Announced Wednesday, the funding comes from Genesis parent company Digital Currency Group (DCG), which, full dis... |
25.06.2020 | The People of Decentraland Will Greet You Now | Most people will agree on at least one thing: 2020 is a dumpster fire. From the coronavirus to economic meltdowns to wrenching clashes over police brutality and systemic racism, we now live in a world that can feel, with every headline, imp... |
17.01.2020 | Grayscale Records “Most Significant Asset Raising Year” with Total Investments Valued at $607.7 Million for FY 2019 | Grayscale Investments, a subsidiary of the Digital Currency Group (DCG) and the largest institutional holder of Bitcoin (BTC), has published its Digital Asset Investment Report, which highlights the firm’s record-setting investment activity... |
12.07.2019 | With crypto winter over here are six SA startups to watch | With experts reporting in recent months that crypto winter is now over, things are hotting up in the SA crypocurrency scene — with five major SA crypto deals valued at over R60-million having being announced since the beginning of this year... |
12.07.2019 | With crypto winter over here are six SA startups to watch | With experts reporting in recent months that crypto winter is now over, things are hotting up in the SA crypocurrency scene — with five major SA crypto deals valued at over R60-million having being announced since the beginning of this year... |
31.08.2018 | The mass exodus at Social Capital continues | Something is going on at Social Capital.
A series of departures continued this morning at former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya‘s venture capital firm, with Mike Ghaffary, a partner since August 2017, announcing he was moving on to... |
28.06.2018 | Top Blockchain Venture Capital Firms | Back in January, we put together a list of some of the hottest blockchain startups to watch in 2018. In this post, we want to take a look at the some of the top blockchain venture capital firms. The folks at CryptoFundResearch did an excell... |
17.05.2018 | This year’s Consensus, the ‘Super Bowl of blockchain,’ saw attendance surge | The premier event of the emerging blockchain and crypto community is Consensus, which takes place in New York every May. The event is backed by the powerful and influential Digital Currency Group, of which longtime industry thought-leader a... |
17.05.2018 | This year’s Consensus, the ‘Super Bowl of blockchain,’ saw attendance surge | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The premier event of the emerging blockchain and ... |
26.10.2017 | Mastercard Opens-Up Access To Blockchain API For Partner Banks And Merchants | Mastercard announced that it will be opening up access to its blockchain technology via its API published on Mastercard Developers.
Mastercard’s blockchain solution provides a new way for consumers, businesses and banks to transact and is k... |
20.10.2017 | Marathon VC invests $ 1.6 million in the Swedish-Greek Norbloc blockchain platform | Norbloc's CEO Astyanax Kanakakis and COO Sam Saatchi /Photo credit: https://www.breakit.se
Norbloc, the RegTech blockchain platform focused on know-your-customer (KYC) solutions raised $1.6 million in a new seed funding round led by the Gre... |
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19.09.2017 | Bitcoin exchange Luno raises $9 million to further global expansion | Cryptocurrency exchange Luno has raised $9 million in a Series B round led by Balderton Capital with participation from South Africa's AlphaCode and new investors Digital Currency Group, a regular backer of cryptocurrency startups.
Based in... |
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07.08.2017 | Get ready to see more sector-specific venture firms | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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07.08.2017 | Get ready to see more sector-specific venture firms | We have witnessed a marked rise in the amount of venture investment dollars over the last decade. Capital has become near-ubiquitous, it may seem.
These capital inflows have had a number of effects, including inflating round pricing and inc... |
03.06.2017 | Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast: Blockchain Takes Over the Podcast | Episode 167 sees blockchain take over the podcast again. With Stewart traveling, Alan Cohn hosts another of the podcast’s periodic deep dives into all things blockchain and digital currency. Our guest is Meltem Demirors, Director of Develop... |
27.04.2017 | US-based Grayscale Investments floats $10m ethereum classic private fund | Premium
U.S. investment firm Grayscale Investments has launched the first private fund focused on ethereum classic, a blockchain platform, with a seed capital of $10 million, Barry Silbert, founder of the company’s parent, Digital Currency ... |
13.02.2017 | ‘Dangerous, Reckless’: DCG’s SegWit Reflections Get Tepid Response | - |
03.01.2017 | BitPagos, now Ripio, lands $1.9M to promote financial inclusion in South America using bitcoin | BitPagos, a bitcoin and digital payments startup that was a Battlefield finalist at TechCrunch Disrupt New York 2016, has closed a $1.9 million Series A round to expand its services in its native South America.
The round was led by China-ba... |
04.11.2016 | ICOs and Appcoins: A Blockchain VC's View | Travis Scher is a bitcoin and blockchain investor at Digital Currency Group, and a former attorney working on M&A and corporate finance transactions.
In this opinion piece, Scher gives his personal view of the lately popular ICOs and ap... |
30.09.2016 | Unocoin Finds Pre Series-A Pot of Gold, Raises Record Amount for Indian Currency Venture | Unocoin, a Bangalore based Bitcoin startup, has raised $1.5 million in a Pre Series-A round, the highest total raised for a digital currency venture in Indian history, said the platform. Funding was sourced from Blume Ventures, Mumbai Angel... |
10.05.2016 | BitPagos uses the blockchain to enable credit for online payments in emerging markets | The world is familiar with bitcoin being used for many things. Online payments, long-distance remittance, even a substitute for gold. But what about credit? Not so much — and that’s where BitPagos, a startup competing in the Battlefield pit... |
30.04.2016 | Japan’s leading bitcoin exchange BitFlyer secures $27 million | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
(The Bridge) – Tokyo-based BitFlyer, the company ... |
30.04.2016 | Japan’s leading bitcoin exchange BitFlyer secures $27 million | (The Bridge) – Tokyo-based BitFlyer, the company behind a Japanese bitcoin exchange, announced this week that it has secured about $27 million (3 billion yen) from Venture Labo Investment, SBI Investment, and others.
Companies which have pa... |