{"id":59974,"date":"2017-09-18T08:24:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T12:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=59974"},"modified":"2017-09-18T08:24:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T12:24:09","slug":"hedge-funds-are-hacking-blockchains-to-guide-crypto-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2017\/hedge-funds-are-hacking-blockchains-to-guide-crypto-investments.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Are Hacking Blockchains to Guide Crypto Investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Lucas Ryan of MetaStable Capital took a deep dive into the computer code underpinning the digital currency Monero to see if it worked as promised. He even took a core piece written in C ++, and rewrote it in the programming language Python.   The extra effort paid off. After taking the time to vet Monero before its investment, the San Francisco-based hedge fund has seen a 100-fold return, said Joshua Seims, who started MetaStable with Ryan three years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-09-14\/hedge-funds-are-hacking-blockchains-to-guide-crypto-investments\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Lucas Ryan of MetaStable Capital took a deep dive into the computer code underpinning the digital currency Monero to see if it worked as promised. He even took a core piece written in C ++, and rewrote it in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59975,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59974\/revisions\/59975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}