Greenwich mansion for sale will take bitcoin cryptocurrency as payment

The Gold Coast of Connecticut soon might become the Crypto Coast if this real estate listing is any indication.

The owner of a Greenwich estate is willing to accept cryptocurrency as payment for its $6.5 million asking price, in what an agent says is the first such listing of its kind in the wealthy town.

The unidentified owner’s background explains the unusual offer, and their comfort level in taking bitcoin or Ethereum crypto for the 4.3-acre farmhouse compound on Bedford Road, which dates to the early 1800s.

“It’s not like a gimmick,” the property’s listing agent, Kevin Sneddon of Compass told CNBC in an…