{"id":12394,"date":"2014-09-24T09:08:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T16:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12394"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:05:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:05:01","slug":"bitcoin-gains-support-of-cryptography-think-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/bitcoin-gains-support-of-cryptography-think-tank","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin gains support of cryptography think tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a class=\"author\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/profiles\/charlie_osborne\/\" rel=\"author\"> Charlie Osborne <\/a>- c\/net<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin, the best known form of virtual currency, faces numerous obstacles to widespread acceptance and adoption, but a new group called Coin Center has added a voice of support.<\/p>\n<p>The organization is led by Jerry Brito, a law professor and a former research fellow at George Mason\u2019s Mercatus Center. In an <a href=\"http:\/\/coincenter.org\/newvoice\/#CoinCenter\" target=\"_blank\" data-component=\"externalLink\">announcement<\/a> made Thursday, Brito said Coin Center is a \u201cnew non-profit research and advocacy center focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency technologies.\u201d Bitcoin was the first and still the best known virtual currency or crytocurrency, which means that cryptography is used for its transactions and its creation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/bitcoin-gains-support-of-cryptography-think-tank\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Charlie Osborne \u2014 c\/net Bitcoin, the best known form of virtual currency, faces numerous obstacles to widespread acceptance and adoption, but a new group called Coin Center has added a voice of support. The organization is led by Jerry Brito, a law professor and a former research fellow at George Mason\u2019s Mercatus Center. In [\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-12394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12394","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=12394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64904,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12394\/revisions\/64904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}