Barry Silbert’s Bitcoin Investment Fund Files $500m Share Offering

Barry Silbert’s Bitcoin Investment Fund Files $500m Share Offering

Barry Silbert’s Bitcoin Investment Trust has filed form S-1 with the US Securities And Exchange Commission (SEC) for up to $500 million USD worth of shares. Private Placement Shares End. The documentation, submitted Friday, will take the Trust a step closer to listing on the New York Stock Exchange should the SEC approve it. “Grayscale Investments, LLC announced today that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 relating to the proposed registration of the Bitcoin Investment Trust’s shares (the “registered Shares”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission,” an accompanying....


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