Bitcoin Bullion Dealers Seek Asian Market Entrance in Singapore
Singapore is the perfect place to sell and store precious metals thanks to its stable government and friendly tax environment, says the co-founder of a new company trading bullion for bitcoin. BullionStar.com CEO Torgny Persson is a Singapore-based expat, who started Swedish bullion dealer LibertySilver.se in 2008 and Estonian LibertySilver.ee in 2011. He moved to Singapore after discovering the government there was removing GST (goods and services tax) on precious metals in 2012. Rather than increasing red tape and discouraging bullion investment like other countries, he said, Singapore....
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