{"id":9742,"date":"2014-01-04T20:11:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T04:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9742"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:11:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:11:39","slug":"zynga-links-up-with-bitpay-for-a-bitcoin-payment-test-in-farmville-2-cityville-and-other-web-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/zynga-links-up-with-bitpay-for-a-bitcoin-payment-test-in-farmville-2-cityville-and-other-web-games","title":{"rendered":"Zynga Links Up With BitPay For A Bitcoin Payment Test In FarmVille 2, CityVille And Other Web Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a title=\"Posts by Ingrid Lunden\" href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/author\/ingrid-lunden\/\" rel=\"author\">Ingrid Lunden<\/a> \u2014 Tech Crunch<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Gaming giant <a href=\"http:\/\/zynga.com\" target=\"_blank\">Zynga<\/a> has started to accept the cryptocurrency as a payment option for those buying tokens for virtual goods on the web versions of FarmVille 2, CastleVille, ChefVille, CoasterVille, Hidden Chronicles, Hidden Shadows and CityVille. It makes Zynga the first major gaming company to accept Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2014\/01\/04\/zynga-links-up-with-bitpay-for-a-bitcoin-payment-test-in-farmville-2-cityville-and-other-web-games\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ingrid Lunden \u2014 Tech Crunch Gaming giant Zynga has started to accept the cryptocurrency as a payment option for those buying tokens for virtual goods on the web versions of FarmVille 2, CastleVille, ChefVille, CoasterVille, Hidden Chronicles, Hidden Shadows and CityVille. It makes Zynga the first major gaming company to accept Bitcoin. Read more<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9742","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=9742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65078,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9742\/revisions\/65078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}