The Bachchan family had invested $ 2.5 million (Rs 1.6 crore) in Bitcoin company Meridian Tech Pte. It is at present worth around 17.5 million dollars (Rs 112 crores) his investment has grown 100 times in just two and half years.
Many billionaires are standing in line to buy Bitcoin Everyone wants to buy this coin continuously. Many people have also invested on this. The name of Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan is also included. According to a Business Standard report, in 2015, Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan had invested 2.5 million dollars (in Meridian Tech Pte who deals in Bitcoin. The fortunes of this firm changed when Meridian's prime asset was purchased Ziddu.com by Longfin Corp, a foreign company. When he invested in Ziddu.com, he used to be a cloud storage and e-distribution startup.
Venkat Srinivas Minawali founder of Meridian Tech, told Business Standard that Amitabh Bachchan had invested in the company through two accounts. One account is about the name of Amitabh Bachchan, which had 1.5 million dollars, and another Amitabh and Abhishek had a joint account with one million dollars. Longfin Corp has claimed that the Exporter and Importerused to convert Ziddu Coin to Bitcoin. Then it was used like a working capital.