{"id":14916,"date":"2021-08-26T14:46:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T14:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci028ba631b0002426"},"modified":"2021-08-26T14:46:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T14:46:31","slug":"billionaire-simon-nixon-seeks-bitcoin-exposure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/billionaire-simon-nixon-seeks-bitcoin-exposure","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Simon Nixon Seeks Bitcoin Exposure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>British billionaire Simon Nixon, co-founder of price-comparison site moneysupermarket.com, is looking to invest more into Bitcoin and crypto, <em>Bloomberg<\/em> reported. <\/p>\n<p>Adam Proctor, managing director of Nixon\u2019s Seek Capital, said the London-based firm is set on increasing its \u201callocation to crypto as we feel it is an important area for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seek Capital is looking to hire an analyst to focus on Bitcoin and crypto, Proctor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-08-26\/billionaire-nixon-s-family-office-plans-to-boost-crypto-bets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> <em>Bloomberg<\/em>. Family offices such as Seek Capital are increasingly fielding questions about Bitcoin and are increasingly venturing into buying the asset as mainstream adoption grows. <\/p>\n<p>A recent Goldman Sachs survey found that \u201cnearly half of the family offices the bank does business with want to add digital currencies to their stable of investments,\u201d <em>Bloomberg <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-07-21\/bitcoin-btc-where-rich-family-offices-are-investing-goldman-survey-shows?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_content=crypto&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> in July. <\/p>\n<p>Billionaire Mike Novogratz has also invested heavily in Bitcoin through his investment bank, Galaxy Digital Holdings, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/galaxy-digital-files-for-bitcoin-futures-etf\">recently filed<\/a> for a Bitcoin ETF. <\/p>\n<p>Simon Nixon\u2019s interest in purchasing more bitcoin comes after another Billionaire, Ricardo Salinas Pliego has begun <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/mexican-bank-working-to-accept-bitcoin\">buying and publicly advocating<\/a> for it as a hedge against inflation and global governmental monetary mismanagement and fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British billionaire Simon Nixon, co-founder of price-comparison site moneysupermarket.com, is looking to invest more into Bitcoin and crypto, Bloomberg reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2936,"featured_media":14917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1235],"class_list":{"0":"post-14916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-billionaire"},"author_data":{"id":2936,"name":"Alex Mcshane","nicename":"bitcoin-journalist-alex-mcshane","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3dd6bbed938cbadeed734dfff7b3964c2a43e2784e2d9ead80b8d5476f8209f1?s=96&d=robohash&r=g"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/simon-nixon.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}