{"id":11415,"date":"2014-05-29T08:06:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T15:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11415"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:14:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:14:28","slug":"dish-to-become-largest-company-to-accept-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/dish-to-become-largest-company-to-accept-bitcoin","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019ll soon be able to pay your TV company in Bitcoin. The future is now."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Fung \u2014 Washington Post<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"decoded\" src=\"\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.blenderss.com\/images\/post-images\/bf\/174\/482038__blenderss-you-ll-soon-be-able-to-pay-your-tv-company-in-bitcoin-the-future-is-now.jpg\" \/><br \/> We\u2019ve been talking for months about how Bitcoin has been slowly getting more integrated into the mainstream. Well, now the cryptocurrency is taking a bigger step in that direction: Beginning this summer, Dish Network, one of the largest satellite TV operators in the country, is going to start accepting bitcoins as a form of payment.<\/p>\n<p>The company said Thursday that it\u2019s partnering with the virtual wallet company Coinbase to help process the transactions. Users who want to pay with bitcoins will do so through Coinbase, which will <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.coinbase.com\/post\/45095442004\/we-now-offer-instant-exchange-for-merchants-not-just\">instantly convert the bitcoins into dollars<\/a> and forward them to Dish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBitcoin is becoming a preferred way for some people to transact and we want to accommodate those individuals,\u201d said Dish executive vice president Bernie Han in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-switch\/wp\/2014\/05\/29\/youll-soon-be-able-to-pay-your-tv-company-in-bitcoin-the-future-is-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Fung \u2014 Washington Post We\u2019ve been talking for months about how Bitcoin has been slowly getting more integrated into the mainstream. Well, now the cryptocurrency is taking a bigger step in that direction: Beginning this summer, Dish Network, one of the largest satellite TV operators in the country, is going to start accepting 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11415","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=11415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47065,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11415\/revisions\/47065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}