{"id":13399,"date":"2015-02-05T03:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13399"},"modified":"2023-08-26T00:53:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T05:53:48","slug":"bitcoin-libertarians-now-desperately-need-the-governments-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/bitcoin-libertarians-now-desperately-need-the-governments-help","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin libertarians now desperately need the government\u2019s help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quartz<\/p>\n<p class=\"annotatable\" data-article-id=\"335539\" data-thread-id=\"154489\" data-annotation-count=\"0\"><span class=\"anno-span\">Bitcoin\u2019s ideological foe is becoming its saving grace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"annotatable\" data-article-id=\"335539\" data-thread-id=\"154490\" data-annotation-count=\"0\"><span class=\"anno-span\">To many Bitcoin enthusiasts, the decentralized currency\u2019s allure was that it was designed to exist beyond the reach of government regulation. Free from central banks, <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@ntmoney\/\">its value wasn\u2019t tied to government policies<\/a> or geopolitical factors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"annotatable\" data-article-id=\"335539\" data-thread-id=\"154491\" data-annotation-count=\"0\"><span class=\"anno-span\">But now it seems the very regulation its creator or creators (since we don\u2019t actually know who first minted Bitcoin) guarded against is what\u2019s now buoying the cryptocurrency\u2019s price. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/335539\/bitcoin-is-saved-from-irrelevance-by-good-old-fashioned-regulation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quartz Bitcoin\u2019s ideological foe is becoming its saving grace. To many Bitcoin enthusiasts, the decentralized currency\u2019s allure was that it was designed to exist beyond the reach of government regulation. Free from central banks, its value wasn\u2019t tied to government policies or geopolitical factors. But now it seems the very regulation its creator or creators [\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-13399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13399","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=13399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170606,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13399\/revisions\/170606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}