{"id":10015,"date":"2014-02-02T07:58:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T15:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10015"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:17:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:17:17","slug":"bitcoin-micropayments-get-big-moment-as-chicago-sun-times-paywall-experiment-goes-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/bitcoin-micropayments-get-big-moment-as-chicago-sun-times-paywall-experiment-goes-live","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Micropayments Get Big Moment as Chicago Sun-Times Paywall Experiment Goes Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"single-author\"><a title=\"Posts by Pete Rizzo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/author\/pete-rizzo\/\" rel=\"author\">Pete Rizzo<\/a> \u2014 CoinDesk<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Readers who visit the Chicago Sun-Times today will notice something they aren\u2019t likely to have seen before: a bitcoin<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-41633\" alt=\"Chicago Sun-Times bitcoin paywall\" src=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"213\" \/> paywall separating them from their content.<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Sun-Times is the ninth-largest newspaper in the United States, and the first major US publication to trial a bitcoin paywall.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of paying for a subscription, as patrons of the The Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times do, Chicago Sun-Times readers who visit the site on 1st February will be asked to donate bitcoin payments to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taprootfoundation.org\/about-probono\" target=\"_blank\">the Taproot Foundation<\/a>, or tweet about the nonprofit, in order to read articles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/micropayments-chicago-sun-times-paywall-live\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Rizzo \u2014 CoinDesk Readers who visit the Chicago Sun-Times today will notice something they aren\u2019t likely to have seen before: a bitcoin paywall separating them from their content. The Chicago Sun-Times is the ninth-largest newspaper in the United States, and the first major US publication to trial a bitcoin paywall. Instead of paying for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47257,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10015\/revisions\/47257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}