The Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT)

The Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT)

The Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT) has more than 100,000 Bitcoins in its possession, said Barry Silbert, chief of Second Market and the trust’s founder. Silbert plans to expand BIT further this year, as investors expect the trust to file for an IPO sometime in the fourth quarter. The firm is a private investment machinery that is expected to add a new type of investors once it sells stock to the public, according to the bitcoinnews. BIT and Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust are competing for the same market and have to rise above several obstacles to enter the stock market. However, BIT has....


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