{"id":13770,"date":"2015-03-20T03:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13770"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:01:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:01:04","slug":"ibm-looking-at-adopting-bitcoin-technology-for-major-currencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/ibm-looking-at-adopting-bitcoin-technology-for-major-currencies","title":{"rendered":"IBM Looking at Adopting Bitcoin Technology for Major Currencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters \u2014 Re\/Code<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>International Business Machines Corp is considering adopting the underlying technology behind bitcoin, known as the \u201cblockchain,\u201d to create a digital cash and payment system for major currencies, according to a person familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The objective is to allow people to transfer cash or make payments instantaneously using this technology without a bank or clearing party involved, saving on transaction costs, the person said. The transactions would be in an open ledger of a specific country\u2019s currency such as the dollar or euro, said the source, who declined to be identified because of a lack of authorization to discuss the project in public.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/recode.net\/2015\/03\/13\/exclusive-ibm-looking-at-adopting-bitcoin-technology-for-major-currencies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters \u2014 Re\/Code International Business Machines Corp is considering adopting the underlying technology behind bitcoin, known as the \u201cblockchain,\u201d to create a digital cash and payment system for major currencies, according to a person familiar with the matter. The objective is to allow people to transfer cash or make payments instantaneously using this technology without [\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-13770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13770","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=13770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64797,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13770\/revisions\/64797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}