{"id":31568,"date":"2016-10-31T18:54:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T01:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=31568"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:25:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:25:22","slug":"blockchain-cryptocurrencies-and-central-banks-opportunity-or-threat-by-dirk-niepelt-world-economic-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/blockchain-cryptocurrencies-and-central-banks-opportunity-or-threat-by-dirk-niepelt-world-economic-forum","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and central banks: Opportunity or threat? \u2014 By Dirk Niepelt | World Economic Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/large_dTii3VNaidVLaqIy7sj3aGTcFgff2vkPXgrhz4jQaWI.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCentral banks increasingly are under pressure to keep \u2018their\u2019 currencies attractive. They should let the general public access electronic central bank money, not just financial institutions ( Niepelt 2015). To do this, they should embrace the blockchain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2016\/10\/blockchain-cryptocurrencies-and-central-banks-opportunity-or-threat?utm_content=buffer619c2&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCentral banks increasingly are under pressure to keep \u2018their\u2019 currencies attractive. They should let the general public access electronic central bank money, not just financial institutions ( Niepelt 2015). To do this, they should embrace the blockchain.\u201d Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31568","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\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38693,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31568\/revisions\/38693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}