GBMiners Founder Amit Bhardwaj shares his love for coffee and Bitcoin

GBMiners Founder Amit Bhardwaj shares his love for coffee and Bitcoin

A small yet detailed chat session with one of the highly emerging Bitcoin entrepreneurs from India. It is a rare small break for the entrepreneur. The board meeting has just been delayed for 15 minutes, giving us the opportunity to finally grab that much sought-after Skype appointment. We were waiting for a week to speak to Amit Bhardwaj, the founder of GBMiners, now one of the world’s highly emerging Bitcoin mining companies. A formal introduction leads us inside the world of Bhardwaj, giving us an apt look at his visions of pushing Bitcoin as the next-big phenomenon in India, a country....


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