meXBT Acquires CoinRepublic Expands to Southeast Asia

meXBT Acquires CoinRepublic Expands to Southeast Asia

Aiming to expand in Asia, particularly in the Southeast, the leading exchange platform of digital currencies in Mexico, meXBT, has bought CoinRepublic, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency brokerage firm. Despite the fact that there are a limited number of merchants accepting Bitcoin in Southeast Asia, cryptocurrency companies are entering the region to tap what they believe to be a huge potential. The region’s population is twice as large as that of the US; the population is tech-savvy, and the governments are not hostile to the cryptocurrencies. meXBT’s decision to acquire CoinRepublic, the....


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