{"id":10395,"date":"2014-03-18T22:25:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T05:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10395"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:15:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:15:31","slug":"bitcoin-silicon-valleys-new-version-of-real-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/bitcoin-silicon-valleys-new-version-of-real-estate","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin: Silicon Valley\u2019s new version of real estate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.fortune.cnn.com\/author\/danielprimack\/\" rel=\"author\">Dan Primack<\/a> \u2014 CNN Money<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65051\" alt=\"140207120146-bitcoins-620xa\" src=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p>FORTUNE \u2014 Tim Chang has a very busy full-time job as a partner with venture capital firm Mayfield, where he has led investments in such companies as Lyft, Lumosity and Playdom. But he also has a business venture on the side, helping friends and family invest in bitcoin via something called Binary Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Binary Fund was formed by a Canadian investment firm called Binary Financial, and also includes participation from venture capitalist Jon Teo (ex-General Catalyst who <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.fortune.cnn.com\/2014\/03\/13\/exclusive-general-catalyst-and-lightspeed-partners-to-form-new-vc-firm\/\">is forming<\/a> a new fund of his own). The idea is basically to participate in bitcoin arbitrage, as opposed to investing in bitcoin-focused startups.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.fortune.cnn.com\/2014\/03\/18\/bitcoin-silicon-valleys-new-version-of-real-estate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dan Primack \u2014 CNN Money FORTUNE \u2014 Tim Chang has a very busy full-time job as a partner with venture capital firm Mayfield, where he has led investments in such companies as Lyft, Lumosity and Playdom. But he also has a business venture on the side, helping friends and family invest in bitcoin via [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47176,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10395\/revisions\/47176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}