{"id":10556,"date":"2014-04-10T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10556"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:08:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:08:25","slug":"bitcoin-players-knock-on-washington-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/bitcoin-players-knock-on-washington-doors","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin players knock on Washington doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"cnnbyline\"><span class=\"byline\">Jennifer Liberto<\/span> \u2014 CNN Money<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/infographic\/technology\/what-is-bitcoin\/?iid=EL\">Bitcoin companies<\/a> are hiring lobbyists, visiting lawmakers on Capitol Hill and writing to agencies about how they should write rules that will determine the future of the fast-growing virtual currency.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all part of a push to shape how Washington ultimately regulates the independent, digital money that is <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2014\/03\/07\/technology\/innovation\/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto\/index.html?iid=EL\">growing in popularity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most important thing we\u2019re doing is explaining how Bitcoin works,\u201d said Jim Harper, a lobbyist who was hired recently as counsel for the Bitcoin Foundation, an organization that represents Bitcoin companies and investors. Harper, who has lobbied for PayPal and VeriSign, is paid in bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2014\/04\/09\/technology\/bitcoin-washington-lobbying\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Liberto \u2014 CNN Money Bitcoin companies are hiring lobbyists, visiting lawmakers on Capitol Hill and writing to agencies about how they should write rules that will determine the future of the fast-growing virtual currency. It\u2019s all part of a push to shape how Washington ultimately regulates the independent, digital money that is growing in [\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-10556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556","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=10556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65002,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556\/revisions\/65002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}