eToro CEO Joins Board at Bitcoin Startup Colu

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Fresh off $2.5m in funding, colored coins startup Colu has announced eToro CEO Yoni Assia has joined its board of directors.

The founder and CEO of what’s billed as “the world’s largest social investment network”, Assia has long been an active member of the bitcoin community. For example, eToro first enabled bitcoin trading for the estimated 2.75m users of its platform in January 2014.

Perhaps most notably, however, Assia is credited as one of the originators of the idea of colored coins, that metadata in the bitcoin protocol could be used to augment bitcoins so that they could represent other assets.

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