{"id":12685,"date":"2014-12-30T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12685"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:09:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:09:05","slug":"philippine-government-bill-could-pave-way-for-bitcoin-backed-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/philippine-government-bill-could-pave-way-for-bitcoin-backed-money","title":{"rendered":"Philippine Government Bill Could Pave Way for Bitcoin-Backed Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"single-author\"><a title=\"Posts by Pete Rizzo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/author\/pete-rizzo\/\" rel=\"author\">Pete Rizzo<\/a><\/span> \u2014 Coindesk<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"decoded\" src=\"\" alt=\"http:\/\/media.coindesk.com\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-09-at-4.37.22-PM.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines has introduced a bill that would seek to create a government-backed \u201ce-peso\u201d that would serve as an official medium of exchange for domestic online payments.<\/p>\n<p>Introduced as part of the E-Peso Act of 2014, the payments tool would be considered legal tender for debt, taxes and goods and services, according to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/m.philstar.com\/315469\/show\/111da5328738d67495879edad5132daf\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Philippine Star<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/philippines-government-consider-bitcoin-e-peso\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Rizzo \u2014 Coindesk A member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines has introduced a bill that would seek to create a government-backed \u201ce-peso\u201d that would serve as an official medium of exchange for domestic online payments. Introduced as part of the E-Peso Act of 2014, the payments tool would be considered legal [\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-12685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12685","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=12685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46680,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12685\/revisions\/46680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}