{"id":78853,"date":"2021-07-22T02:47:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T06:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=78853"},"modified":"2021-07-22T02:34:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T06:34:27","slug":"interactive-brokers-thomas-peterffy-owns-cryptocurrency-because-you-have-to-play-the-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2021\/interactive-brokers-thomas-peterffy-owns-cryptocurrency-because-you-have-to-play-the-odds.html","title":{"rendered":"Interactive Brokers Thomas Peterffy owns  cryptocurrency because \u2018you have to play the odds\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Online brokerage pioneer Thomas Peterffy told CNBC on Wednesday he\u2019s invested in cryptocurrencies, while still expressing skepticism over the long-term future of the digital asset class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEven I myself have put a little bit of money into crypto, because even though chances are, I think, that this is not going to be a viable market, I think that there\u2019s a small chance that this will be a dominant currency, so you have to play the odds,\u201d the billionaire founder and chairman of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/IBKR\" target=\"_blank\">Interactive Brokers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/07\/21\/thomas-peterffy-says-he-owns-some-cryptocurrency-because-you-have-to-play-the-odds.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Online brokerage pioneer Thomas Peterffy told CNBC on Wednesday he\u2019s invested in cryptocurrencies, while still expressing skepticism over the long-term future of the digital asset class. \u201cEven I myself have put a little bit of money into crypto, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78853","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=78853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78854,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78853\/revisions\/78854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}