{"id":11898,"date":"2014-07-21T21:55:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T04:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11898"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:13:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:13:00","slug":"dell-starts-accepting-bitcoin-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/dell-starts-accepting-bitcoin-payment","title":{"rendered":"Dell Starts Accepting Bitcoin Payment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex William \u2014 Bitcoin Vox<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Michael Dell, founder and CEO of the big PC maker <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dell.com\/learn\/us\/en\/uscorp1\/campaigns\/bitcoin-marketing?c=us&amp;l=en&amp;s=corp\" target=\"_blank\">Dell<\/a><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">, announced via Twitter on Friday that his eponymous company will start accepting bitcoin as a payment option for anything purchased on the company\u2019s website.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">For bitcoin, it\u2019s one of the biggest signs yet of mainstream acceptance. With nearly $57 billion in sales in 2013, Dell would be by far the largest company to take bitcoin. Dish Network, which began accepting bitcoin in May, had $13.9 billion in 2013 sales. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bitcoinvox.com\/article\/870\/dell-starts-accepting--bitcoin-payment\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex William \u2014 Bitcoin Vox Michael Dell, founder and CEO of the big PC maker Dell, announced via Twitter on Friday that his eponymous company will start accepting bitcoin as a payment option for anything purchased on the company\u2019s website. For bitcoin, it\u2019s one of the biggest signs yet of mainstream acceptance. With nearly $57 [\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-11898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11898","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=11898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56479,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11898\/revisions\/56479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}