{"id":84563,"date":"2018-11-07T09:22:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T17:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/blockchain-millionaire-plans-smart-city-in-nevada-desert"},"modified":"2018-11-07T09:22:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T17:22:26","slug":"blockchain-millionaire-plans-smart-city-in-nevada-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/blockchain-millionaire-plans-smart-city-in-nevada-desert","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain millionaire plans smart city in Nevada desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blockchain-millionaire-plans-smart-city-in-nevada-desert.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cryptocurrency millionaire Jeffrey Berns has revealed plans to develop a large parcel of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/nevada\/\">Nevada<\/a>\u2019s desert into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/smart-cities\/\">smart city<\/a> powered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/blockchain\">blockchain<\/a> technology.<\/p>\n<p>Berns, who made a fortune selling cryptocurrency last year, plans to transform the 67,000-acre (27,113-hectare) plot in the north of the US state after paying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/01\/technology\/nevada-bitcoin-blockchain-society.html\">reportedly paying<\/a> $170 million (\u00a3130 million) for the land.<\/p>\n<p>The site known as Innovation Park, which neighbours hubs of major tech giants including Google, Apple, Switch and Tesla, is already home to the headquarters of his company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blockchains.com\/\">Blockchains<\/a> \u2013 an incubator that supports ventures and businesses using blockchain technology.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2018\/11\/06\/blockchain-innovation-park-smart-city-nevada-jeffrey-berns\/\">https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2018\/11\/06\/blockchain-innovation-park...rey-berns\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency millionaire Jeffrey Berns has revealed plans to develop a large parcel of Nevada\u2019s desert into a smart city powered by blockchain technology. Berns, who made a fortune selling cryptocurrency last year, plans to transform the 67,000-acre (27,113-hectare) plot in the north of the US state after paying reportedly paying $170 million (\u00a3130 million) for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,43,1761],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-business","category-cryptocurrencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84563","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}