Jersey has recently announced the setting up of the World’s first Bitcoin investment fund. The fund, known as the Global Advisors Bitcoin Investment Fund (GABI), is a regulated open ended fund and is due to be launched on 1 August 2014 by a Jersey based investment management company. This will not be open to the public.
Bitcoin was founded in 2009 and is a crypto-currency made up of computer code. Bitcoin has a variety of advantages such as;
– easily portable
– less intermediaries meaning reduced processing fees
– it cannot be counterfeited
– less risk of fraud when compared with credit card or bank payments
Jersey already boasts a number of businesses on the island that accept Bitcoin as payment and is being complimented on its expertise which made possible this new investment opportunity.
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