{"id":9258,"date":"2013-12-05T21:33:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T05:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9258"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:12:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:12:33","slug":"first-tesla-model-s-purchased-with-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/first-tesla-model-s-purchased-with-bitcoin","title":{"rendered":"First Tesla Model S Purchased With Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 itemprop=\"headline\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"ex-author facebookProfile\"> <a itemprop=\"url\" title=\"View Nelson Ireson's Profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.highgearmedia.com\/user\/10001724_nelson-ireson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Nelson Ireson<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not familiar with Bitcoin, you might want to change that. The electronic cryptocurrency is rapidly gaining acceptance around the globe, with many businesses\u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/digitalcurrency\">and even one university<\/a>\u2013accepting Bitcoins as readily as dollars. Now, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/model-s\">Tesla Model S<\/a> has been purchased directly with Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>The car, sold for an undisclosed sum of Bitcoin by <a href=\"http:\/\/lamborghininewportbeach.blogspot.com\/\">Lamborghini Newport Beach<\/a> in Costa Mesa, California, appears to have been a lightly used model, if only because it wasn\u2019t sold directly by Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA].<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO SEE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1088908_2015-ford-mustang-official-details-photos-and-video\" target=\"_blank\">2015 Ford Mustang Preview: Official Photos And Video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Announced on the dealer\u2019s blog, the sale marks the first Bitcoin purchase for Lamborghini Newport Beach\u2013but it won\u2019t likely be the last.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLamborghini Newport Beach is proud to announce that we are fully capable of accepting Bitcoin as legal tender for vehicles. We are excited to opening the door to this new currency,\u201d the company wrote on its blog.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1088926_first-tesla-model-s-purchased-with-bitcoin\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson Ireson If you\u2019re not familiar with Bitcoin, you might want to change that. The electronic cryptocurrency is rapidly gaining acceptance around the globe, with many businesses\u2013and even one university\u2013accepting Bitcoins as readily as dollars. Now, a Tesla Model S has been purchased directly with Bitcoin. The car, sold for an undisclosed sum of Bitcoin [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,43,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-business","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258","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=9258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65102,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258\/revisions\/65102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}