{"id":7539,"date":"2021-06-28T08:37:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T12:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=7539"},"modified":"2021-07-23T14:04:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T18:04:08","slug":"mexican-billionaire-might-use-bitcoin-in-his-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/mexican-billionaire-might-use-bitcoin-in-his-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Billionaire Might Use Bitcoin In His Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego said that his banking business could start using bitcoin, becoming the first Mexican bank to accept the cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Forbes, Salinas, who is considered the third richest man in Mexico with an estimated family wealth of $15.8 billion, owns Banco Azteca, one of Mexico&#8217;s largest banks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salinas said he had invested about 10% of his liquid portfolio in bitcoin and encouraged all investors to study cryptocurrencies and their future.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Bitcoin surged 7.5% on Sunday to trade at $34,500.<\/p>\n\n<p>For more information, you may view the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/finance\/mexican-billionaire-salinas-says-his-banking-business-may-embrace-bitcoin-2021-06-28\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> from Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego said that his banking business could start using bitcoin, becoming the first Mexican bank to accept the cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-7539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todays-news","tag-bitcoin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7569,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions\/7569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}