{"id":95779,"date":"2019-09-04T10:44:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T17:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=95779"},"modified":"2019-09-04T13:22:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T20:22:58","slug":"the-race-to-own-one-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/the-race-to-own-one-bitcoin","title":{"rendered":"The Race to Own One Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Owning one full bitcoin is becoming a recognized attainment goal. And thereby hangs a tale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it just a numbers game? Isn\u2019t the unit a bit arbitrary and meaningless?\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The logistics and the math are compelling. I recognized the importance of reaching this personal milestone more than 8 years ago. But I was a nobody. No one cared. Then, in April 2019, we started to see articles in legitimate venues about this concept\u2014and articulated in exactly this way. I borrowed the title of this post from <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.goodaudience.com\/the-race-to-acquire-one-bitcoin-times-running-out-54d88af9c2a5\">this article in Medium<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Who Says So?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/the-race-to-own-one-bitcoin\">Continue reading \u201cThe Race to Own One Bitcoin\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owning one full bitcoin is becoming a recognized attainment goal. And thereby hangs a tale. Is it just a numbers game? Isn\u2019t the unit a bit arbitrary and meaningless?\u2026 The logistics and the math are compelling. I recognized the importance of reaching this personal milestone more than 8 years ago. But I was a nobody. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":353,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1761,39,45],"tags":[2161,3524,3528,3525,3526,3529,3527,3530],"class_list":["post-95779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cryptocurrencies","category-economics","category-finance","tag-bitcoin","tag-brian-armstrog","tag-changpeng-zhao","tag-charlie-shrem","tag-one-full-bitcoin","tag-own-one-bitcoin","tag-race-to-own-bitcoin","tag-steve-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95779","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=95779"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95798,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95779\/revisions\/95798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}