{"id":61634,"date":"2018-01-04T00:14:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T05:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=61634"},"modified":"2018-01-04T00:14:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T05:14:14","slug":"thiels-founders-fund-has-been-quietly-buying-bitcoin-since-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2018\/thiels-founders-fund-has-been-quietly-buying-bitcoin-since-2012.html","title":{"rendered":"Thiel&#8217;s Founders Fund Has Been Quietly Buying Bitcoin Since 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Bitcoin has gained global fame in the past year, but it\u2019s been popular at Peter Thiel\u2019s venture firm since at least 2012. Founders Fund, Thiel\u2019s San Francisco-based firm known for early bets on SpaceX and Airbnb, has been purchasing small amounts of bitcoin in recent years, totaling no more than $20 million, to establish a &#8220;toehold&#8221; in the space, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-01-03\/thiel-s-founders-fund-has-been-quietly-buying-bitcoin-since-2012\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Bitcoin has gained global fame in the past year, but it\u2019s been popular at Peter Thiel\u2019s venture firm since at least 2012. Founders Fund, Thiel\u2019s San Francisco-based firm known for early bets on SpaceX and Airbnb, has been purchasing [&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-61634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61634","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=61634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61635,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61634\/revisions\/61635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}