{"id":12362,"date":"2014-09-22T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12362"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:05:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:05:08","slug":"united-way-to-begin-accepting-donations-in-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/united-way-to-begin-accepting-donations-in-bitcoin","title":{"rendered":"United Way to begin accepting donations in Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"pb-title\" data-pb-field=\"title\">Hayley Tsukayama \u2014 WashingtonPost<\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>United Way Worldwide announced Monday that it will begin taking donations in Bitcoin, the digital currency.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin users can now use the currency for donations to the United Way\u2019s Innovation Fund, a part of the United Way dedicated to updating the organization through \u201ctechnology, relationships and efficiency.\u201d Coinbase, one of the leading Bitcoin payment platforms, is partnering with the charity to let those interested donate directly from their digital Bitcoin wallets to the fund. According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedway.org\/pages\/bitcoin-faq\">page on the United Way\u2019s Web site,<\/a> anyone from around the world can donate to the fund using Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-switch\/wp\/2014\/09\/15\/united-way-to-begin-accepting-donations-in-bitcoin-for-innovation-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hayley Tsukayama \u2014 WashingtonPost United Way Worldwide announced Monday that it will begin taking donations in Bitcoin, the digital currency. Bitcoin users can now use the currency for donations to the United Way\u2019s Innovation Fund, a part of the United Way dedicated to updating the organization through \u201ctechnology, relationships and efficiency.\u201d Coinbase, one of the [\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-12362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12362","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=12362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64907,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12362\/revisions\/64907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}