19/02/16
Japanese venture company SBI Investment will invest in the bitcoin exchange Kraken. The exact numbers are not disclosed, but it is known that the sum is measured in several millions of dollars.
According to SBI Investment’s CEO Yoshitaka Kitao, the company has been looking to invest in bitcoin and blockchain for quite a long time, and Kraken has proved itself to be a leading bitcoin exchange service of international standard.
It’s not the first investment of Japanese venture firm in blockchain technologies: some days ago SBI signed an agreement with Ripple startup about launching a new company.
Kraken is also quite active: in 2016 it purchased 2 bitcoin exchanges: Carvitex and Coinsetter.
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