Japanese yen Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange bitFlyer has raised $236,000 in investment that the firm says will be used to fund additional services, as well as expansion outside Japan.
BitFlyer previously raised $1.6m in July with the goal of becoming the leading player in the country’s expanding bitcoin market.
Notably, the latest funding was provided by Barry Silbert ’s Bitcoin Opportunity Corp (BOC), which has invested in a large number of bitcoin startups including Coinbase , Circle , BitPay , Safello and others. […]