Bithumb, South Korea’s largest Bitcoin exchange by trading volume, has launched an over-the-counter (OTC) trading platform that will allow deep-pocketed traders to exchange crypto assets off the books. In an official announcement, Bithumb Global Limited, a Hong Kong-based subsidiary of the South Korean exchange, said that it will cater services to institutional clients under the brand name Ortus. Is the Company Seeing Institutional Demand For Crypto? Since late 2017, various reports have claimed that the OTC market is significantly larger than the cryptocurrency exchange market. Last year, TABB Group estimated the OTC market of Bitcoin to be at least two
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