The owner of venture capital firm Horizon Ventures, Li Ka-shing, has become the latest proponent of cryptocurrency platform Bakkt investing heavily in Bitcoin. Bitcoin backers abound around the world but experience wise with his 90 years, Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, known affectionally as Superman, is way up there.
The Bakkt project has delayed its launch twice in a row with a timeline now set for early 2019, in line with CFTC’s process and timeline.
Bakkt has already announced its successful first seed funding round of USD 182 million with 14 investors and partners listed to have participated. Intercontinental Exchange, Goldfinch Partners, Boston Consulting Group, Microsoft’s Venture Capital arm and Pantera Capital were among participants.
Li, who is said to be worth about USD 34.9 billion, has made some major forays into the cryptocurrency space late in his business career, including Bitpay in 2013 and Blockstream in 2016, through his company Horizon Ventures. Bitpay also attracted another “Superman”, British Virgin entrepreneur Sir Richard Branston, who also put about USD 30 million of his money into the Bitcoin payment service provider headquartered in Atlanta.
The Bakkt Bitcoin platform, which is being developed with New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange, Starbucks, and Microsoft, will offer Bitcoin futures trading once the launch date has been announced, opening up the opportunity for users to buy, sell, store and spend cryptocurrencies through MS Cloud. Global coffee chain Starbucks will allow customers to convert Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to US dollars to make purchases in their stores.
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