{"id":14280,"date":"2015-05-19T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T22:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=14280"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:06:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:06:12","slug":"why-the-block-chain-matters-reid-hoffman-wired-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/why-the-block-chain-matters-reid-hoffman-wired-uk","title":{"rendered":"Why the block chain matters \u2014 Reid Hoffman | Wired UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/620x413\/a_c\/bitcoin_18.jpg\u201d<\/a>},{\u201cwidth\u201d:1240,\u201cheight\u201d:826,\u201curl\u201d:\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/1240x826\/a_c\/bitcoin_18.jpg&quot;\">http:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/1240x826\/a_c\/bitcoin_18.jpg\u201d<\/a>},{\u201cwidth\u201d:1920,\u201cheight\u201d:1280,\u201curl\u201d:\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/1920x1280\/a_c\/bitcoin_18.jpg&quot;\">http:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/1920x1280\/a_c\/bitcoin_18.jpg\u201d<\/a>},{\u201cwidth\u201d:458,\u201cheight\u201d:305,\u201curl\u201d:\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/458x305\/a_c\/bitcoin_18.jpg&quot;\">http:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/458x305\/a_c\/bitcoin_18.jpg\u201d<\/a>},{\u201cwidth\u201d:281,\u201cheight\u201d:187,\u201curl\u201d:\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/281x187\/a_c\/bitcoin_18.jpg&quot;\">http:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/281x187\/a_c\/bitcoin_18.jpg\u201d<\/a>},{\u201cwidth\u201d:195,\u201cheight\u201d:130,\u201curl\u201d:\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/195x130\/a_c\/bitcoin_18.jpg&quot;\">http:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/195x130\/a_c\/bitcoin_18.jpg\u201d<\/a>}]}\u201d \/&gt;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you combine Bitcoin\u2019s global scope, its extreme divisibility and its ability to verify transactions without third parties, you end up with a system where engaging in exchanges of economic value becomes nearly as friction-free as tweeting or texting.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/magazine\/archive\/2015\/06\/features\/bitcoin-reid-hoffman\/viewall\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/620x413\/a_c\/bitcoin_18.jpg\u201d},{\u201cwidth\u201d:1240,\u201cheight\u201d:826,\u201curl\u201d:\u201chttp:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/1240x826\/a_c\/bitcoin_18.jpg\u201d},{\u201cwidth\u201d:1920,\u201cheight\u201d:1280,\u201curl\u201d:\u201chttp:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/1920x1280\/a_c\/bitcoin_18.jpg\u201d},{\u201cwidth\u201d:458,\u201cheight\u201d:305,\u201curl\u201d:\u201chttp:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/458x305\/a_c\/bitcoin_18.jpg\u201d},{\u201cwidth\u201d:281,\u201cheight\u201d:187,\u201curl\u201d:\u201chttp:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/281x187\/a_c\/bitcoin_18.jpg\u201d},{\u201cwidth\u201d:195,\u201cheight\u201d:130,\u201curl\u201d:\u201chttp:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/195x130\/a_c\/bitcoin_18.jpg\u201d}]}\u201d \/&gt; \u201cWhen you combine Bitcoin\u2019s global scope, its extreme divisibility and its ability to verify transactions without third parties, you end up with a system where engaging in exchanges of economic value becomes nearly as friction-free as tweeting or texting.\u201d Read more<\/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-14280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14280","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=14280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46501,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14280\/revisions\/46501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}