{"id":11220,"date":"2014-05-22T18:39:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T01:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11220"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:14:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:14:37","slug":"bitcoins-nefarious-cousin-darkcoin-is-booming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/bitcoins-nefarious-cousin-darkcoin-is-booming","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin\u2019s nefarious cousin Darkcoin is booming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"writer\">by <a title=\"View all articles by Andy Greenberg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/search\/author\/Andy+Greenberg\">Andy Greenberg<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/620x413\/d_f\/darkcoin.jpg\u201d<\/a>\u201a\u201cwidth\u201d:620,\u201cheight\u201d:413},{\u201curl\u201d:\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/111x74\/d_f\/darkcoin.jpg&quot;\">http:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/111x74\/d_f\/darkcoin.jpg\u201d<\/a>,\u201cwidth\u201d:111,\u201cheight\u201d:74},{\u201curl\u201d:\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/1920x1280\/d_f\/darkcoin.jpg&quot;\">http:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/1920x1280\/d_f\/darkcoin.jpg\u201d<\/a>,\u201cwidth\u201d:1920,\u201cheight\u201d:1280},{\u201curl\u201d:\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/1240x826\/d_f\/darkcoin.jpg&quot;\">http:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/1240x826\/d_f\/darkcoin.jpg\u201d<\/a>,\u201cwidth\u201d:1240,\u201cheight\u201d:826}]}\u201d \/&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Someone out there likes anonymous money.<\/p>\n<p>In only a month, the little-known bitcoin alternative known as Darkcoin has rocketed nearly tenfold in value \u2014 from around 75 cents a coin (44p) to almost seven dollars (\u00a34). Its selling point: Darkcoin offers far greater anonymity than bitcoin, mixing up users\u2019 transactions so that it\u2019s incredibly difficult to trace a payment to a person. And though few have yet to accept that more-anonymous coin for actual goods and services, the promise of Darkcoin\u2019s privacy features seems to have sparked a miniature boom. It\u2019s one of the fastest growing among the wave of cryptocurrencies that\u2019s followed bitcoin\u2019s success, with the total value of its combined coins topping out at nearly $30 million (\u00a318 million).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/news\/archive\/2014-05\/22\/darkcoin-is-booming\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Andy Greenberg http:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/620x413\/d_f\/darkcoin.jpg\u201d\u201a\u201cwidth\u201d:620,\u201cheight\u201d:413},{\u201curl\u201d:\u201chttp:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/111x74\/d_f\/darkcoin.jpg\u201d,\u201cwidth\u201d:111,\u201cheight\u201d:74},{\u201curl\u201d:\u201chttp:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/1920x1280\/d_f\/darkcoin.jpg\u201d,\u201cwidth\u201d:1920,\u201cheight\u201d:1280},{\u201curl\u201d:\u201chttp:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/1240x826\/d_f\/darkcoin.jpg\u201d,\u201cwidth\u201d:1240,\u201cheight\u201d:826}]}\u201d \/&gt; Someone out there likes anonymous money. In only a month, the little-known bitcoin alternative known as Darkcoin has rocketed nearly tenfold in value \u2014 from around 75 cents a coin (44p) to almost seven dollars (\u00a34). Its selling point: Darkcoin offers far greater anonymity than bitcoin, mixing up users\u2019 transactions [\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-11220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11220","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=11220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47081,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11220\/revisions\/47081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}