Herford, December 21, 2017 – Bitcoin Group SE confirms its outlook of strong salesgrowth in the current financial year given in its half-year report for 2017 and publishes aconcrete sales and earnings forecast for 2017, with the volume of cryptocurrenciestraded on the Bitcoin.de trading platform being well above EUR 1 billion for the full year2017. This results in a sales expectation for the Bitcoin Group of at least 10 millioneuros and a pre-tax profit of at least 8 million euros. The number of customers onBitcoin.de increased to more than 645,000 by mid-December. The original target was480,000 customers by the end of 2017.