{"id":9440,"date":"2013-12-15T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9440"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:22:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:22:39","slug":"vegas-developer-selling-7-85m-mansion-for-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/vegas-developer-selling-7-85m-mansion-for-bitcoin","title":{"rendered":"Vegas developer selling $7.85M mansion for bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image articleimage\" alt=\"Vegas home selling in bitcoin: Great room\" src=\"\" data-class=\"img1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"partnerlogo-txt\"><span class=\"divider\"> By Associated Press <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"abs\" itemprop=\"description\">The former owner of a Las Vegas casino says he\u2019s willing to accept the online currency bitcoin in the $7.85 million sale of his home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/maps\/default.aspx?form=MSNNDL&amp;q=Las%20Vegas,%20Nevada,%20United%20States\" target=\"_blank\">LAS VEGAS<\/a> \u2014 A casino owner-turned-commercial developer is asking $7.85 million to sell a Las Vegas home, and he\u2019s willing to accept the online currency bitcoin for the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Sommer said he got the idea to seek bitcoin for his 25,000-square-foot mansion from two of his sons, who\u2019ve been involved in making and trading the currency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe advantage is that we\u2019re expanding our market and adding some notoriety,\u201d Sommer said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.msn.com\/science-technology\/vegas-developer-selling-dollar785m-mansion-for-bitcoin\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Associated Press The former owner of a Las Vegas casino says he\u2019s willing to accept the online currency bitcoin in the $7.85 million sale of his home. LAS VEGAS \u2014 A casino owner-turned-commercial developer is asking $7.85 million to sell a Las Vegas home, and he\u2019s willing to accept the online currency bitcoin for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,43,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-business","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9440","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=9440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47351,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9440\/revisions\/47351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}