{"id":57066,"date":"2022-02-02T19:50:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T17:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=57066"},"modified":"2025-09-04T09:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:49:06","slug":"kiss-bassist-gene-simmons-to-sell-las-vegas-home-for-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/kiss-bassist-gene-simmons-to-sell-las-vegas-home-for-cryptocurrency\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiss bassist Gene Simmons to sell Las Vegas home for cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The musician and Kiss bassist Gene Simmons has put up for sale a home spanning more than 1,000 square metres in Las Vegas for $13.5 million, with the option to pay in digital assets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rock legend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/genesimmons?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GeneSimmons<\/a> is selling his home in Henderson\u2019s Ascaya community for $13,500,000 and says he will accept cryptocurrency as payment.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Uniswap, Polkadot, Litecoin, Aave, Try \u2014 or a combination of those. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HlTHZkrJfX\">pic.twitter.com\/HlTHZkrJfX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Las Vegas Locally \ud83c\udf34 (@LasVegasLocally) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LasVegasLocally\/status\/1488716482863243280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Simmons is willing to accept Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Uniswap, Polkadot, Aave, Try.Finance, or a combination of these cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, in May 2021 the musician bought the house for $10.8 million and put it up for sale in October at nearly $15 million, reducing the price the following month.<\/p>\n<p>In the three-level mansion there are six bedrooms, eight bathrooms, glass sculptures, floor-to-ceiling windows, a commercial elevator, an 11-seat home theatre and views of the Las Vegas Strip.<\/p>\n<p>Broker Evangeline Duke-Patroni noted that if the house is paid for in cryptocurrency, closing costs, including taxes and commissions, must be paid in fiat.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2021 Simmons <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/kiss-bassist-gene-simmons-invests-in-dogecoin-and-xrp\">revealed investments<\/a> in Dogecoin and XRP. He also <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/kiss-bassist-gene-simmons-bought-bitcoin-for-a-seven-figure-sum\">bought Bitcoin<\/a> \u201cfor a seven-figure sum.\u201d In the same month the musician <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/kiss-bassist-gene-simmons-buys-cardano-for-300000\">purchased Cardano<\/a> for $300,000.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this June, French DJ David Guetta put up for sale a Miami Beach apartment for $14 million <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/david-guetta-to-sell-miami-apartment-for-377-btc\">with the option to pay in Bitcoin or Ethereum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our Telegram \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kiss bassist Gene Simmons has put up for sale a home spanning more than 1,000 square metres in Las Vegas for $13.5 million, with the option to pay in digital assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1269,673],"class_list":["post-57066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-real-estate"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57068,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57066\/revisions\/57068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}