SecondMarket Chief Barry Silbert Bullish on Bitcoin: Predicts Another Price Bubble
Barry Silbert, Source: Twitter. SecondMarket Chief Executive and founder of the Bitcoin Investment Trust Barry Silbert remains not surprisingly bullish on bitcoin and its price. While many of us (me included) don't pay attention to the price of bitcoin, it's a huge talking point amongst enthusiasts and the suits on Wall Street - whether you like it or not. And Silbert's confident we'll see another price bubble the likes of which we saw in 2013 which essentially made bitcoin a household name. In case you're new to the community or your memory is equivalent to that of a goldfish, we had two....
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Barry Silbert: he's one busy businessman. From CEO of SecondMarket and the Bitcoin Investment Trust, in addition to the leader of the new Bitcoin Opportunity Corp., he's had quite a lot going on. And now we're learning via BusinessInsider that Silbert is planning to step down from his role as CEO at SecondMarket, an online illiquid asset marketplace. He's reportedly now exclusively committed to working on his bitcoin-related ventures, specifically the Bitcoin Investment Trust, which allows major investors to get involved with bitcoin in a secure manner. Silbert will still remain the....
Barry Silbert, Source: Twitter. Founder and CEO of SecondMarket Barry Silbert revealed on Sunday that he's planned to be pretty busy today in meetings with institutional investors representing over $250 billion ath the Barclays Emerging Payments Forum at the Crowne Plaza in Times Square. The talking point? Bitcoin. Yes, bitcoin. Some very powerful people in the finance community are looking to talk digital currency. Silbert's tweet: Requests from 38 institutional investors representing +$250 billion to meet with me re bitcoin at Barclays Emerging Payments Forum tomorrow. It's unclear just....
SecondMarket has not yet launched its institutional bitcoin exchange - it's expected later this year. However, the company has added a new page to their website for "market making" as clarified by founder and CEO Barry Silbert over Twitter: FYI, we did NOT launch a digital currency exchange today. Just added a new web page for our bitcoin "market making" https://t.co/PoeNmfN2ZS. - Barry Silbert (@barrysilbert) April 16, 2014. New York-based SecondMarket previously confirmed that it will launch a professional-level bitcoin exchange service for institutional traders (including banks, hedge....
Noted bitcoin investor Barry Silbert has resigned from his position as CEO of SecondMarket, the New York-based illiquid assets marketplace he founded in 2004 and that in 2013 made a $2m investment in the Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT), a private trust of which Silbert remains CEO. In a company blog post, Silbert stated that he is confident that SecondMarket has a bright future continuing its current successful business model, but that the decision is meant to allow him the freedom to focus his full energies on bitcoin. Silbert said: "I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of....
Inside Bitcoins New York will host Barry Silbert as a speaker on Day 3 of the event in a moderated “Fireside Chat”. Barry Silbert will discuss bitcoin investing, and the latest trends, changes, technologies, and companies currently shaping bitcoin. Barry Silbert has been a key leader in the rising bitcoin industry, even being selected in Fortune’s “40 under 40” in 2011, and this year has been named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young and Crain’s. He is most respected for his founding of the Digital Currency Group, SecondMarket, and the Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT)- the world’s....