{"id":63318,"date":"2018-04-20T01:26:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T05:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=63318"},"modified":"2018-04-20T01:26:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T05:26:41","slug":"a-billionaire-hedge-fund-manager-and-the-fed-chair-runner-up-are-investing-in-a-new-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2018\/a-billionaire-hedge-fund-manager-and-the-fed-chair-runner-up-are-investing-in-a-new-cryptocurrency.html","title":{"rendered":"A Billionaire Hedge-Fund Manager and The Fed Chair Runner-Up Are Investing in a New Cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(CNBC) Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller and Fed chair runner-up Kevin Warsh have invested in a cryptocurrency project called Basis, along with many other investors, the company said Wednesday.<br \/>\nBain Capital Ventures said it led the $133 million private placement, which was the private equity firm&#8217;s first purchase of cryptocurrency tokens. Other investors included Alphabet&#8217;s GV venture capital arm and Andreessen Horowitz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/04\/18\/a-billionaire-hedge-fund-manager-and-the-fed-chair-runner-up-are-investing-in-a-new-cryptocurrency.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller and Fed chair runner-up Kevin Warsh have invested in a cryptocurrency project called Basis, along with many other investors, the company said Wednesday. Bain Capital Ventures said it led the $133 million private placement, which was [&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-63318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63318","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=63318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63319,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63318\/revisions\/63319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}