{"id":3388,"date":"2024-11-27T18:03:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T18:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=3388"},"modified":"2024-11-27T18:03:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T18:03:15","slug":"million-dollar-listing-seller-turned-down-50000-bitcoin-for-14-million-new-york-apartment-in-2015-missed-out-on-billions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=3388","title":{"rendered":"Million Dollar Listing Seller Turned Down 50,000 Bitcoin For $14 Million New York Apartment In 2015, Missed Out On Billions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Leading cryptocurrency <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) didn&#8217;t have as much interest in 2015 as it does today, as the price soars to new highs after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/11\/41778425\/bitcoins-all-time-high-a-groundbreaking-milestone-and-strong-post-election-rally-coming-ex\">2024 presidential election.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While taking 50,000 Bitcoin for a real estate transaction in 2015 may have proved risky, the homeowner who turned down the deal is likely regretting their decision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>Over the years an episode of &#8220;Million Dollar Listing New York&#8221; has gone viral thanks to the missed profits a person could have had if they had accepted Bitcoin for a real estate deal in 2015, six years after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/01\/36471920\/happy-birthday-bitcoin-15-fun-facts-about-leading-cryptocurrency\">the cryptocurrency launched.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The real estate show, which aired on <strong>Comcast Corp<\/strong> (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/CMCSA#NASDAQ\">CMCSA<\/a>) unit Bravo for nine seasons, featured many real estate transactions over the years.<\/p>\n<p>The one that draws attention from the cryptocurrency community today is the Season 4, Episode 10 airing that was shown on Bravo on June 17, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The year is 2015. Seller receives a $13million offer for their property \u2013 but paid in Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>50,000 Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>He declines. <\/p>\n<p>Todays value? $3.18 billion. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kmf8A4r15p\">pic.twitter.com\/kmf8A4r15p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/general\/entertainment\/24\/11\/42220321\/million-dollar-listing-seller-turned-down-50000-bitcoin-for-14-million-new-york-apartment-i\" alt=\"Million\" dollar listing seller turned down bitcoin for million new york apartment in missed out on billions>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading cryptocurrency Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) didn&#8217;t have as much interest in 2015 as it does today, as the price soars to new highs after the 2024 presidential election. While taking 50,000 Bitcoin for a real estate transaction in 2015 may have proved risky, the homeowner who turned down the deal is likely regretting their decision. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-3388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}