MGT Capital Investments, Tera Group to Create First Publicly Traded US Bitcoin Derivatives Exchange

MGT Capital Investments, Tera Group to Create First Publicly Traded US Bitcoin Derivatives Exchange

MGT Capital Investments announced a planned merger with Tera Group, which operates the first regulated U. S. Bitcoin derivatives exchange. The merger will create the first publicly traded U. S. Bitcoin derivatives exchange. As observed by The Wall Street Journal, this is a reverse merger where Tera will take a controlling stake in MGT. Tera doesn't seem....


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