Chinese technology conglomerate Tencent Holdings, a Japanese telecommunications and media Corporation SoftBank Group has denied the information on participation in the beginning of August in the next round of funding, mining giant Bitmain before its IPO. In addition, SoftBank Group said they generally do not consider the possibility of investing in Bitmain.
At the same time, another company – China International Capital Corporation (CICC) – which, according to some information, could also become an investor Bitmain has not denied but also not confirmed its participation in this round of funding.
Attempts to identify where began to spread the message about the mining giant’s investors are led to owned by user Uncle C account IPO Zao Zhi Dao platform WeChat, which has reference to exclusive sources of information.
We will remind, in June, the co-founder and head of Bitmain Wu Jihan (Jihan Wu) confirmed that his company is “open” for an IPO, and did not deny the possibility of its conduct in Hong Kong. Last week , Mau Samson (Samson Mow), one of the leaders of the blockchain startup Blockstream, made the assumption that Bitmain focuses on the financial results for the first quarter of this year, although it’s already the third because the second quarter results were disastrous. Previously mentioned in the July report Bitmain data allowed experts to conclude that either for SHA256 miners company account for 4% of Hasrat network of bitcoin or the company shamelessly published false information.
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