Barry Silbert Biography

Barry Silbert is the Founder & CEO of Digital Currency Group a company helping to build the foundation of the digital currency and blockchain technology industry by launching incubating and investing in groundbreaking companies that will transform the global financial services ecosystem and usher in the “internet of value”. DCG has been an active seed investor in the digital currency industry with over 50 investments in 15 countries including BitGo BitPay BitPagos BitPesa Chain Circle Coinbase Gyft Kraken Ripple Labs TradeBlock Unocoin and Xapo.
In addition Barry also created the Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT) a private open-ended trust sponsored by Grayscale Investments a Digital Currency Group company. The BIT’s shares are the first publicly quoted securities (ticker: GBTC) solely invested in and deriving value from the price of bitcoin enabling investors to gain exposure to the price movement of bitcoin without the challenges of buying storing and safekeeping bitcoins.
Prior to founding Digital Currency Group Barry founded SecondMarket a platform that enables private companies and investment funds to more efficiently raise capital and provide liquidity to their stakeholders by simplifying complex transaction workflows streamlining investor onboarding and verifying that investors are accredited.

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