{"id":62397,"date":"2018-02-18T01:39:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T06:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=62397"},"modified":"2018-02-20T23:40:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T04:40:02","slug":"elliott-management-a-34-billion-hedge-fund-described-cryptocurrencies-as-one-of-the-most-brilliant-scams-in-history-in-a-brutal-takedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2018\/elliott-management-a-34-billion-hedge-fund-described-cryptocurrencies-as-one-of-the-most-brilliant-scams-in-history-in-a-brutal-takedown.html","title":{"rendered":"Elliott Management, a $34 billion Hedge Fund, Described Cryptocurrencies As \u2018One Of The Most Brilliant Scams In History\u2019 in a brutal takedown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(The Business Insider) Elliott Management, a $34 billion hedge fund founded by billionaire Paul Singer, has an acronym to describe the folly surrounding cryptocurrencies &#8211; WTHIT, or what the hell is this? &#8220;FOMO (fear of missing out) has solidly trumped WTHIT (what the hell is this??),&#8221; Elliott told clients in a January 26 letter seen by Business Insider. &#8220;When the history is written, cryptocurrencies will likely be described as one of the most brilliant scams in history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bitcoin-brilliant-scam-says-paul-singer-elliott-management-2018-2\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The Business Insider) Elliott Management, a $34 billion hedge fund founded by billionaire Paul Singer, has an acronym to describe the folly surrounding cryptocurrencies &#8211; WTHIT, or what the hell is this? &#8220;FOMO (fear of missing out) has solidly trumped [&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-62397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62397","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=62397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62398,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62397\/revisions\/62398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}