Update on SatoshiPay

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Blue Star Capital plc

11 December 2017

 

Blue Star Capital plc

("Blue Star" or the "Company")

Update on SatoshiPay

Blue Star Capital plc (AIM: BLU), the investing company with a focus on technology and its applications within media and gaming, announces that further to the Company's announcement on 13 November 2017 regarding its investee company, SatoshiPay Ltd ("SatoshiPay"), the Company is pleased to learn that SatoshiPay's partnership with Stellar is now live and that SatoshiPay expects, from later this week, to be able to accept credit card payments via the payment service provider TransactWorld UK. SatoshiPay have advised that this means that consumers will be able to top up SatoshiPay using Visa and Mastercard which should allow SatoshiPay to target a significantly increased user base as it begins to roll out pilot partnerships with publishers.

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of EU Regulation 596/2014 ("MAR").

For further information, please contact:

Blue Star Capital plc
Tony Fabrizi	[phone]
Cairn Financial Advisers LLP	[phone]
(Nominated Adviser)
Emma Earl/Jo Turner
Smaller Company Capital Limited	[phone]
(Broker) Rupert Williams/Jeremy Woodgate

About Blue Star Capital plc

Blue Star is an investing company with a focus on new technologies. Blue Star's investments include a 31% holding in SatoshiPay, a nanopayment software and blockchain company; a holding in Disruptive Tech Limited, an investing company with five investments including a 38% holding in VNU Group LLC ("VNU") a speciality online direct retailer of premium goods paid for through an instant credit facility and a holding in Nektan PLC; and a 1% investment in Sthaler, an early stage identity and payments technology business which enables a consumer to identify themselves and pay using just their finger at retail points of sale

 

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