{"id":88079,"date":"2024-05-01T00:15:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T04:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=88079"},"modified":"2024-04-30T23:34:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T03:34:53","slug":"binance-co-founder-zhao-set-to-keep-on-growing-his-33-billion-fortune-even-as-he-heads-to-prison-for-four-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2024\/binance-co-founder-zhao-set-to-keep-on-growing-his-33-billion-fortune-even-as-he-heads-to-prison-for-four-months.html","title":{"rendered":"Binance co-founder Zhao set to keep on growing his $33 billion fortune even as he heads to prison for four months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Changpeng Zhao, the billionaire co-founder and former CEO of Binance, is expected to see his mammoth wealth remain intact and likely continue to climb even as he faces time behind bars after his sentencing in a Seattle court. Zhao, who is commonly referred to as \u201cCZ\u201d in crypto circles, was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/04\/30\/binance-founder-changpeng-zhao-cz-sentenced-to-four-months-in-prison-.html\">sentenced to four months in prison<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday, after pleading guilty to charges of enabling money laundering at his crypto exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/04\/30\/binance-founder-zhaos-huge-wealth-unaffected-by-prison-sentence.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Changpeng Zhao, the billionaire co-founder and former CEO of Binance, is expected to see his mammoth wealth remain intact and likely continue to climb even as he faces time behind bars after his sentencing in a Seattle court. Zhao, [&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-88079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88079","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=88079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88080,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88079\/revisions\/88080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}