{"id":11688,"date":"2014-07-01T11:06:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T18:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11688"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:14:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:14:07","slug":"newegg-is-the-latest-online-retailer-to-accept-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/newegg-is-the-latest-online-retailer-to-accept-bitcoin","title":{"rendered":"Newegg is the latest online retailer to accept Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"the-author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/author\/vbtomcheredar\/\" rel=\"author me\">Tom Cheredar<\/a><\/span> \u2014 Venture Beat<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image-17659\" class=\"single\" style=\"left: 0px; top: 0px;\" src=\"\" alt=\"Newegg is the latest online retailer to accept\u00a0Bitcoin\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" data-size=\"single\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even though Bitcoin has suffered some security setbacks over the last few months, many retailers still seem happy to let customer pay with the controversial crypto\u2013<a id=\"KonaLink0\" class=\"kLink\" style=\"text-decoration: underline !important; position: static; font-family: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2014\/07\/01\/newegg-is-the-latest-online-retailer-to-accept-bitcoin\/#\"><span style=\"color: #4479bd; font-family: inherit ! important; font-weight: inherit ! important; font-size: inherit ! important; position: static;\"><span class=\"kLink\" style=\"color: #4479bd ! important; font-family: inherit ! important; font-weight: inherit ! important; font-size: inherit ! important; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid #4479bd; background-color: transparent;\">currency<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The latest of these retailers is online tech store <a href=\"http:\/\/newegg.com\" target=\"_blank\">Newegg<\/a>, which today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20140701005451\/en\/Newegg-Partners-BitPay-Add-Bitcoin-Payment-Option#.U7LHCKgWfKZ\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> plans to begin accepting Bitcoin for purchases on the site. To make this happen, Newegg is teaming up with virtual currency processor Bitpay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2014\/07\/01\/newegg-is-the-latest-online-retailer-to-accept-bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Cheredar \u2014 Venture Beat Even though Bitcoin has suffered some security setbacks over the last few months, many retailers still seem happy to let customer pay with the controversial crypto\u2013currency. The latest of these retailers is online tech store Newegg, which today announced plans to begin accepting Bitcoin for purchases on the site. To [\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-11688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11688","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=11688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47007,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11688\/revisions\/47007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}