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Bitcoin mania: How Big B and family's $250,000 investment rose to $17.5 mn

Bachchans received 250,000 shares of LongFin following the asset purchase

Kaun Banega Crorepati, Amitabh Bachchan, KBC
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Kaun Banega Crorepati, KBC

BS Web Team New Delhi
Amitabh Bachchan, the Kaun Banega Crorepati host, undoubtedly knows how to build his wealth. As bitcoin mania reaches a fever pitch, the value of a stock investment by the Bachchan family has risen from $250,000 to $17.5 million in two and a half years. The Bachchans, one of Hindi cinema’s biggest names, had made their first significant equity investment in an overseas company through the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS) in 2015.

Business Standard reported in 2015 that the father-son duo, Amitabh and Abhishek invested $250,000 (approximately Rs 1.57 crore) in Meridian Tech Pte