{"id":9228,"date":"2013-12-04T18:12:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T02:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9228"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:12:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:12:46","slug":"virgins-space-passengers-can-pay-with-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/virgins-space-passengers-can-pay-with-bitcoin","title":{"rendered":"Virgin\u2019s space passengers can pay with Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"cnnbyline\"><span class=\"byline\">By James O\u2019Toole<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>Good news, future space travelers: Now you can enter the void without bringing your wallet.<\/h2>\n<p>U.K. business magnate Richard Branson announced Friday that his commercial space travel venture, Virgin Galactic, will allow customers to pay for their flights with the digital currency Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ie_column\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cVirgin Galactic is a company looking into the future, so is Bitcoin. So it makes sense we would offer Bitcoin as a way to pay for your journey to space.\u201d Branson wrote in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgin.com\/richard-branson\/bitcoins-in-space\" target=\"_blank\">a blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of the people who have joined Bitcoin are tech-minded people, as are many of our current future astronauts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2013\/11\/22\/news\/companies\/bitcoin-virgin-space\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By James O\u2019Toole Good news, future space travelers: Now you can enter the void without bringing your wallet. U.K. business magnate Richard Branson announced Friday that his commercial space travel venture, Virgin Galactic, will allow customers to pay for their flights with the digital currency Bitcoin. \u201cVirgin Galactic is a company looking into the future, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,172,8,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-fun","category-space","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228","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=9228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65107,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions\/65107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}