Special Report - Ex-banker cheerleads his way to cryptocurrency riches

HONG KONG/NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Seventeen months ago, a former Wall Street investment banker who specialised in distressed assets took to Twitter to announce he had bought a cryptocurrency for 50 cents per coin. "At $0.50, risk/return felt right," tweeted Barry Silbert, founder and chief executive of a private New York-based company called Digital Currency Group, or DCG.

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