{"id":10453,"date":"2014-03-25T13:06:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T20:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10453"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:08:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:08:40","slug":"bitcoin-goes-national-with-scotcoin-and-auroracoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/bitcoin-goes-national-with-scotcoin-and-auroracoin","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin goes national with Scotcoin and Auroracoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span itemprop=\"author\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><span itemprop=\"name\"><a class=\"contributor\" itemprop=\"url\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/alex-hern\" rel=\"author\">Alex Hern<\/a> \u2014 The Guardian<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The promise of bitcoin is a universal currency free from the control of any nation or government. But a new generation of cryptocurrencies are focusing on the opposite goal: building money to solve problems specific to one country.<\/p>\n<p>On midnight Monday, Auroracoin, a bitcoin clone which is the fourth most valuable cryptocurrency being traded today, entered the second phase of its life, with a \u201chelicopter drop\u201d of 30 auroracoins to every citizen of Iceland.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2014\/mar\/25\/bitcoin-goes-national-with-scotcoin-auroracoin\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Hern \u2014 The Guardian The promise of bitcoin is a universal currency free from the control of any nation or government. But a new generation of cryptocurrencies are focusing on the opposite goal: building money to solve problems specific to one country. On midnight Monday, Auroracoin, a bitcoin clone which is the fourth most [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10453","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=10453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65010,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10453\/revisions\/65010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}