Bitcoin start-up gets $30 million investment from major players!

Bitcoin start-up gets $30 million investment from major players!

San Francisco-based Bitcoin company Chain Inc. has clinched an investment of $30 million and the investors include financial heavyweights such as Visa Inc., Nasdaq Inc., Citi Ventures, Capital One Financial Corp., Fiserv Inc. and Orange SA. Chain Inc. works with banks and other financial firms and claims that its "solutions enable institutions to design, deploy and operate blockchain networks that can power any type of asset in any market." As reported by the Wall Street Journal, the company has also said that the former American Express Co. CEO and venture capitalist Jim Robinson III has....


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