Billionaire investor Draper to participate in blockchain token sale for first time

Draper is an early supporter of bitcoin and its underlying blockchain financial ledger technology.

NEW YORK: Billionaire venture capitalist Tim Draper soon plans to take a step that even he, a long-time bitcoin aficionado, has eschewed to now: buying a new digital currency offered by a technology startup.

Draper, an early supporter of bitcoin and its underlying blockchain financial ledger technology, told Reuters in an interview he will for the first time participate in a so-called "initial coin offering" (ICO) of Tezos slated later this month.