55 Hedge Funds Are Now Betting On Crypto Currency Mania

The highly regulated world of hedge funds gets in on the crypto currency mania sweeping the globe

• The crypto currency market has exploded in value this year. Crypto currencies, which rose to fame with Bitcoin, have captured investors' imagination this year with an estimated 800 coins now on the market with a combined market cap of $166 billion.

In the past few weeks, coin offerings have heated up with Burger King launching its own crypto currency and even Paris Hilton lending her face to the newest offering, “Lydian Coin," from a company called Gravity4, a development the Financial Times has taken full...