Success story: plastic surgeon from Singapore has bought a 38 percent stake Bithumb
Source:The Largest volume of trading in South Korea exchange Bithumb officially confirmed the sale of 38 percent of its shares to Singapore blakan-BK consortium Global Consortium.
In the course of the agreement, BK Global Consortium will receive shares from the company and the Holdings Company, the current owner of the controlling securities exchange. The amount of the transaction amounted to 1 trillion won or about $ 350 million. Bithumb was estimated at 880 million dollars.
How much Bithumb
BK Global Consortium is a subsidiary of Singapore medical Corporation BK Global-based plastic surgeon Kim Byung gun the. He Gong is actively investing in bitcoin and its related projects. For example, last year the businessman has established a platform for monitoring of the ICO and launched a consulting company, which assists in the support of initial placement of tokens.
Estimate of 880 million dollars and net profit in the amount of 31.5 million dollars in the first six months of 2018 — an excellent result for the platform, which recently attack. At the end of June, the exchange stole 315 million dollars, most of which belonged to customers and were stored in hot wallets.
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According to the representative of the exchange, first the amount of damage amounted to $ 30 million, and then decreased to $ 17 million. The reason for this concerted action of several exchanges and cooperation Bithumb with the government, said the company.
The attackers stole the money in 11 currencies. This BCH, BTC, ELF, ETH, ETHOS, GNT, HSR, KNC, OMG, VEN and XRP. Most of the funds stolen in bitcoins — about 12.3 million dollars.
Let's hope that investors are not just appreciated the exchange, and new appliances such trading platforms can be expected.
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