{"id":9964,"date":"2014-01-25T19:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T03:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9964"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:10:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:10:42","slug":"google-looks-into-accepting-bitcoin-but-realistically-its-options-are-very-limited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/google-looks-into-accepting-bitcoin-but-realistically-its-options-are-very-limited","title":{"rendered":"Google looks into accepting Bitcoin, but realistically its options are very limited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"by vcard\">By <a title=\"Posts by Ryan Whitwam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/author\/rwhitwam\" rel=\"author\">Ryan Whitwam<\/a> - ExtremeTech<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"intelliTXT\">The first thing to know about Bitcoin has nothing to do with how it works or what the current value of one is \u2014 of primary importance is the fanatical devotion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/tag\/bitcoin\">Bitcoin<\/a> users have to the mother of all cryptocurrencies. Many fans of Bitcoin promote the anonymous internet money at every turn, encouraging others to use it as a way to combat everything from government overreach to unethical banking practices. This is why cryptocurrencies are still a thing. Bitcoin enthusiasts scored a major victory when Overstock and Zynga started accepting Bitcoins recently, and that prompted one fan to start asking other internet companies what their plans were. Surprisingly, the one organization he got anywhere with was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/tag\/google\">Google<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/internet\/175335-google-looks-into-accepting-bitcoin-but-realistically-its-options-are-very-limited\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ryan Whitwam \u2014 ExtremeTech The first thing to know about Bitcoin has nothing to do with how it works or what the current value of one is \u2014 of primary importance is the fanatical devotion Bitcoin users have to the mother of all cryptocurrencies. Many fans of Bitcoin promote the anonymous internet money at [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9964","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=9964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65053,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9964\/revisions\/65053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}