{"id":10113,"date":"2014-02-09T22:08:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T06:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10113"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:09:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:09:40","slug":"6-people-have-paid-250000-in-bitcoin-to-ride-this-rocket-ship-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/6-people-have-paid-250000-in-bitcoin-to-ride-this-rocket-ship-into-space","title":{"rendered":"6 People Have Paid $250,000 In Bitcoin To Ride This Rocket Ship Into Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"byline\"><span class=\"name\">Jim Edwards, provided by <\/span><span class=\"name\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"byline\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Virgin Galactic\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/6-people-have-paid-250000-in-bitcoin-to-ride-this-rocket-ship-into-space2.jpg\" width=\"800\" border=\"0\" \/><\/h5>\n<p>We were talking recently with an executive in the adtech startup scene and got onto the subject of Bitcoin, and how much money was pouring into \u2014 and coming out of \u2014 the online cryptocurrency in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley area.<\/p>\n<p>This source told us that he had heard about a guy who had made more than $200,000 from trading Bitcoin, and had used it to charter a rocket into space.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, what?<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, it\u2019s true.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/technology\/businessinsider\/article\/6-People-Have-Paid-250-000-In-Bitcoin-To-Ride-5215529.php\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Edwards, provided by We were talking recently with an executive in the adtech startup scene and got onto the subject of Bitcoin, and how much money was pouring into \u2014 and coming out of \u2014 the online cryptocurrency in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley area. This source told us that he had heard [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113","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=10113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65040,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113\/revisions\/65040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}