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$1.6 mil. Truckee property bought with bitcoins


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This vacant Martis Camp parcel was paid for in bitcoins. Photo/Martis Camp

This vacant Martis Camp parcel was paid for in bitcoins. Photo/Martis Camp

By Candace Jackson, Wall Street Journal

A Truckee property sold Thursday for $1.6 million—in bitcoins.

The property is one of just a handful of residential real estate transactions in months that have used virtual currency—and potentially a record in terms of price. The price in bitcoins was 2,739.

The 1.4-acre acre home site has views of the Pacific Crest, a surrounding mountain range. It is located in Martis Camp.

Brian Hull, Martis Camp’s director of sales, said the buyer was a “Silicon Valley entrepreneur,” but declined to disclose his name. He said the buyer purchased the land through a trust, and plans to build a home on the site.

The idea to pay for the property with bitcoins came from the buyer, said Hull. “When we originally heard the idea of bitcoin, everybody had a little pause,” he said. “We weren’t educated at how the transaction would go.”

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