{"id":94989,"date":"2019-08-19T17:23:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T00:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/youngest-bitcoin-millionaire-willing-to-stake-it-all-on-metal-pay"},"modified":"2019-08-19T17:23:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T00:23:13","slug":"youngest-bitcoin-millionaire-willing-to-stake-it-all-on-metal-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/youngest-bitcoin-millionaire-willing-to-stake-it-all-on-metal-pay","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Youngest Bitcoin Millionaire\u2019 Willing to Stake it All on Metal Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/youngest-bitcoin-millionaire-willing-to-stake-it-all-on-metal-pay2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Metallicus, the startup behind the peer-to-peer payments platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metalpay.com\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Metal Pay<\/a>, received an undisclosed angel investment from the youngest bitcoin millionaire, Erik Finman.<\/p>\n<p>In partnership with Metal Pay CEO Marshall Hayner, the two look to develop the first \u201call-in-one\u201d cryptocurrency banking platform, which includes a 17 digital asset exchange, a digital bank and a payments application with social features similar to Venmo.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in September, Metal Pay has processed approximately $11 million in total payments from nearly 130,000 registered users across 38 states. On a monthly basis, the company processes $1 million in crypto or fiat for around 30,000 active users, according to Hayner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metallicus, the startup behind the peer-to-peer payments platform Metal Pay, received an undisclosed angel investment from the youngest bitcoin millionaire, Erik Finman. In partnership with Metal Pay CEO Marshall Hayner, the two look to develop the first \u201call-in-one\u201d cryptocurrency banking platform, which includes a 17 digital asset exchange, a digital bank and a payments application [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1761,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cryptocurrencies","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94989","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}