{"id":10321,"date":"2014-03-11T14:41:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T21:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10321"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:09:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:09:05","slug":"winklevoss-twins-plan-space-trip-funded-by-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/winklevoss-twins-plan-space-trip-funded-by-bitcoin","title":{"rendered":"Winklevoss twins plan space trip, funded by Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"cnnbyline\"><span class=\"byline\">By Katie Lobosco \u2014 CNN Money<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<br \/> The brothers, known for their legal battle over the creation of <span>Facebook<\/span> <span>(<span class=\"inlink_chart\"><a class=\"inlink\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=FB&amp;source=story_quote_link\">FB<\/a><\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/magazines\/fortune\/fortune500\/2013\/snapshots\/11743.html?iid=EL\">Fortune 500<\/a>)<\/span>, are going to space and paying for it with Bitcoins. Take that, Mark Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ie_column\"><\/div>\n<p>The twins bought tickets, valued at $250,000 each, for a ride to space with Virgin Galactic. That\u2019s about 375 Bitcoins, at Wednesday\u2019s price.<\/p>\n<p>They think of their purchase \u201cas seed capital\u201d supporting new technologies they have high hopes for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2014\/03\/05\/technology\/winklevoss-space-flight\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Katie Lobosco \u2014 CNN Money The brothers, known for their legal battle over the creation of Facebook (FB, Fortune 500), are going to space and paying for it with Bitcoins. Take that, Mark Zuckerberg. The twins bought tickets, valued at $250,000 each, for a ride to space with Virgin Galactic. That\u2019s about 375 Bitcoins, [\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-10321","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\/10321","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=10321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65023,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10321\/revisions\/65023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}