The Japanese company Softbank, the largest shareholder of Uber, denied its involvement in financing mining giant Bitmain. Earlier it was reported that Softbank acquired the stock Bitmain, which allowed the Chinese company to increase its value to $15 billion.
Softbank is on the list of major shareholders of the taxi service Uber — which owns 15% of this company. Media in early August, citing anonymous sources reported that the company has invested $1 billion manufacturer of equipment for the miners. It clarifies the portal Cointelegraph, the representative of the Softbank denied the information on participation of the company in the IPO.
With Softbank in the purchase of securities mining company allegedly involved Chinese giant Tencent. Representatives from Tencent has not yet responded to the request of journalists, the press center Bitmain refused to comment on a statement by an employee of Softbank.
In June of this year, the CEO of Bitmain Jihan Wu admitted the possibility of the output of the mining giant’s IPO on the Hong Kong stock exchange. As noted by the Chinese edition of QQ, in the course of placement of shares of the company’s value could grow to $30 billion.
However, recently, it was reported that on the way to the IPO Bitmain can cause serious difficulties because the assets in Bitcoin Cash.
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