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Blockchain.com May Raise Money at Significant Discount to Previous Valuation: Bloomberg

The company was valued at $14 billion in a funding round earlier this year, but may only fetch $3 billion to $4 billion, the publication reported.

Blockchain.com founder and CEO Peter Smith (Blockchain.com)
Blockchain.com founder and CEO Peter Smith (Blockchain.com)

Blockchain.com, the cryptocurrency financial-services company that was valued at $14 billion when raising capital early this year, might only fetch $3 billion to $4 billion in a new funding round, Bloomberg reported, citing sources it didn't identify.

Nothing has been locked down and talks to raise money are still preliminary, Bloomberg said.

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Nick Baker

Nick Baker is CoinDesk's deputy editor-in-chief. He won a Loeb Award for editing CoinDesk's coverage of FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried, including Ian Allison's scoop that caused SBF's empire to collapse. Before joining in 2022, he worked at Bloomberg News for 16 years as a reporter, editor and manager. Previously, he was a reporter at Dow Jones Newswires, wrote for The Wall Street Journal and earned a journalism degree from Ohio University. He owns more than $1,000 of BTC and SOL.

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