{"id":13688,"date":"2015-03-13T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T22:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13688"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:01:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:01:24","slug":"the-bitcoin-book-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/the-bitcoin-book-boom","title":{"rendered":"The bitcoin book boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a class=\"article-byline-author\" href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/author\/daniel-roberts\/\">Daniel Roberts \u2014 Fortune<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/> For all the media coverage, and for all the venture capitalist interest, the average person on the street still knows nothing about bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>According to a study released by the nonprofit Coin Center last month, 65% of the general public is \u201cnot at all familiar\u201d with the digital currency or its underlying technology. Of those who do have some awareness, 84% have never used it.<\/p>\n<p>That hasn\u2019t stopped authors from rushing in to churn out books on bitcoin. In 2014, hundreds of books were published on the topic. Why are business writers so intrigued? <em>Fortune<\/em> spoke to the authors of three recent serious books on the topic. Below are five questions from each conversation.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2015\/03\/06\/bitcoin-book-boom\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Daniel Roberts \u2014 Fortune For all the media coverage, and for all the venture capitalist interest, the average person on the street still knows nothing about bitcoin. According to a study released by the nonprofit Coin Center last month, 65% of the general public is \u201cnot at all familiar\u201d with the digital currency or [\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-13688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13688","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=13688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64807,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13688\/revisions\/64807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}