{"id":93622,"date":"2019-07-14T15:32:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T22:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=93622"},"modified":"2019-07-14T16:11:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T23:11:18","slug":"about-the-fuss-is-bitcoin-really-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/about-the-fuss-is-bitcoin-really-important","title":{"rendered":"About the Fuss: Is Bitcoin really important?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This afternoon, an automated bot at Quora suggested that I answer a reader question. Quora is essentially an \u201c<em>Ask the expert<\/em>\u201d web site. It is the world\u2019s largest, cataloged and indexed Q&amp;A repository.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the question I was asked to answer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>Some pundits believe Bitcoin is a fad, while others seem to feel that it is better than sliced bread. I like sliced bread.* Is Bitcoin really that cool? \u2014Or is it just a lot of Geeky hype?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>One other columnist answered before me. Normally, I pass on an invitation, if a question has already been answered. But in this case, the individual answering the question has yet to see the light. He has wandered into the Church of the Blockchain, but he just didn\u2019t realize that the man sweeping the floor is the prophet.<\/p><div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/about-the-fuss-is-bitcoin-really-important\">Continue reading \u201cAbout the Fuss: Is Bitcoin really important?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, an automated bot at Quora suggested that I answer a reader question. Quora is essentially an \u201cAsk the expert\u201d web site. It is the world\u2019s largest, cataloged and indexed Q&amp;A repository. This is the question I was asked to answer: Some pundits believe Bitcoin is a fad, while others seem to feel that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":353,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1761,39],"tags":[2161,2121,3435,3438,3439,3434,3436,3437,3433],"class_list":["post-93622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cryptocurrencies","category-economics","tag-bitcoin","tag-blockchain","tag-importance-of-bitcoin","tag-is-bitcoin-a-big-deal","tag-is-bitcoin-good","tag-is-bitcoin-profound","tag-is-bitcoin-revolutionary","tag-who-cares-about-bitcoin","tag-why-is-the-blockchain-important"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93622","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\/353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93622"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93630,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93622\/revisions\/93630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}