{"id":131508,"date":"2021-11-30T11:25:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T19:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/crypto-stamp-crashes-swiss-posts-online-store-with-launch-day-demand"},"modified":"2021-11-30T11:25:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T19:25:25","slug":"crypto-stamp-crashes-swiss-posts-online-store-with-launch-day-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/crypto-stamp-crashes-swiss-posts-online-store-with-launch-day-demand","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Stamp Crashes Swiss Post\u2019s Online Store With Launch Day Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crypto-stamp-crashes-swiss-posts-online-store-with-launch-day-demand2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Unexpectedly high demand for Switzerland\u2019s first crypto stamp has created headaches for the national postal service. Swiss Post announced it had to deal with technical issues when numerous orders hit its online shop all at once on the day the innovative offering was made available.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Demand for First Crypto Stamp Overwhelms Swiss Post\u2019s Online Store<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Swiss Post announced the \u201ccrypto stamp\u201d initiative in September when it was presented as an attempt to \u201cbridge the gap between the physical and digital worlds in philately.\u201d The state-owned company joined forces with blockchain services provider Inacta to produce the stamp, a first of a kind for the Alpine nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unexpectedly high demand for Switzerland\u2019s first crypto stamp has created headaches for the national postal service. Swiss Post announced it had to deal with technical issues when numerous orders hit its online shop all at once on the day the innovative offering was made available. Demand for First Crypto Stamp Overwhelms Swiss Post\u2019s Online Store [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131508","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}