Barry Silbert Invests $250k in Indian Company
Bitcoin Opportunity Corp, the investor group led by Barry Silbert, recently announced to invest around $250k in Unocoin, a Bitcoin-centered company based in Bangalore, India. The latter was launched less than a year ago and has now set quite a niche for itself among the Indian Bitcoin fanatics. Unocoin is also speculated to be the fastest emerging Bitcoin firm in India and entire Asia. The investments made by Barry Gilbert is sure enough to send Unocoin to further heights.
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This comment was followed by a statement released earlier by the CPFB in regards of giving more attention to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
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“This is our first step into the exciting space of cryptocurrency, currency that exists solely in the digital world. At Payza, we’re very interested in bitcoin and cryptocurrency, and we have big plans to expand the way bitcoin can be used on our platform.”
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