{"id":9580,"date":"2013-12-23T22:46:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T06:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9580"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:22:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:22:31","slug":"building-bitcoin-use-in-south-florida-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/building-bitcoin-use-in-south-florida-and-beyond","title":{"rendered":"Building Bitcoin use in South Florida and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"credit_line\">By Lance Dixon <a href=\"mailto:ldixon@MiamiHerald.com\">ldixon@MiamiHerald.com<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" id=\"storyBodyContent\">\n<p>The U.S. Senate has deemed it legitimate. Detractors dismiss it as unstable and a vehicle for criminal trade. China has <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" alt=\" A twenty-five bitcoin token. The digital currency, which carries the unofficial ticker symbol of BTC, was unveiled in 2009 by an unidentified programmer, or group of programmers, under the name of Satoshi Nakamoto. Supply is capped at 21 million Bitcoins and managed by a software algorithm embedded into the digital currency\u2019s design, rather than a monetary authority such as a central bank. \" src=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"213\" border=\"0\" \/>banned new deposits on its largest exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin, the international digital payment system and currency and one of the hottest technology and finance topics this past year, could become a widespread vehicle for trade, believe the leaders of a Miami group. To further that view, Miami International Bitcoin will be partcipating in the <a href=\"http:\/\/btcmiami.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">North American Bitcoin Conference<\/a> slated for Miami Beach in January.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing that\u2019s really exciting about Bitcoin is that, here in South Florida, we have a half billion people to the south of us who do not have access to a banking system that works well, capital markets, credit \u2014 things that we take for granted,\u201d said Charles Evans, business professor at Florida Atlantic University and one of the founders of Miami International Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2013\/12\/23\/3835016\/building-bitcoin-use-in-south.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lance Dixon ldixon@MiamiHerald.com The U.S. Senate has deemed it legitimate. Detractors dismiss it as unstable and a vehicle for criminal trade. China has banned new deposits on its largest exchange. Bitcoin, the international digital payment system and currency and one of the hottest technology and finance topics this past year, could become a widespread [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580","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=9580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47338,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580\/revisions\/47338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}