{"id":4601,"date":"2016-06-28T15:55:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T07:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/28\/22-million-worth-of-bitcoin-sold-in-australian-first-auction\/"},"modified":"2016-06-28T15:55:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T07:55:24","slug":"22-million-worth-of-bitcoin-sold-in-australian-first-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/28\/22-million-worth-of-bitcoin-sold-in-australian-first-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"$22 million worth of Bitcoin sold in Australian-first auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you had a couple of million to spare last week, you could have won yourself a very healthy haul of Bitcoin.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Tuesday, financial services firm Ernst and Young announced it had successfully auctioned off 24,518 bitcoins. The bitcoins\u00a0<\/span>are worth<\/a> around A$22 million ($<\/span>16 million)\u00a0<\/span>by current value. One bitcoin is <\/span>currently\u00a0<\/span>worth<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0A$891.95 ($<\/span>657.89) as at time of publication.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The closed international auction, which ended on June 21, was open to bidders who\u00a0supplied a deposit of $250,000 (A$338,698) and met other financial requirements. There were\u00a011 lots of 2,000 bitcoins and one lot of 2,518 bitcoins. Each lot was worth well in excess of A$1 million, although bidders could have paid less.<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If you had a couple of million to spare last week, you could have won yourself a very healthy haul of Bitcoin. On Tuesday, financial services firm Ernst and Young announced it had successfully auctioned off 24,518 bitcoins. The bitcoins\u00a0are … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[728,2621,1112],"class_list":["post-4601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-australia","tag-bitcoin","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}