Gambling tycoon builds $100m bitcoin-funded Antiguan resort
by Rupert Neate from Technology | The Guardian on (#3G6MJ)
'His excellency' Calvin Ayre says project will be entirely funded from digital currency profits
Calvin Ayre, a gambling and bitcoin multi-millionaire who was once on the run from the US authorities, is building a $100m five-star resort on Antigua funded by profits from digital currencies.
Canadian-born Ayre, who has been appointed Antigua and Barbuda's special economic envoy, said he had begun work on the upmarket tourist resort on Antigua's Valley Church beach.
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