{"id":16842,"date":"2017-06-20T16:49:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T21:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16842"},"modified":"2017-06-20T16:49:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T21:49:17","slug":"move-over-bitcoin-ether-is-the-digital-currency-of-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16842","title":{"rendered":"Move Over, Bitcoin. Ether Is the Digital Currency of the Moment."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/charts-enthusiasm-ethereum-hit-time-high-q1\/\">recent survey<\/a> of 1,100 virtual currency users, 94 percent were positive about the state of Ethereum, while only 49 percent were positive about Bitcoin, the industry publication CoinDesk said this month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/19\/business\/dealbook\/ethereum-bitcoin-digital-currency.html\">Move Over, Bitcoin. Ether Is the Digital Currency of the Moment. &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Investors buying Ether are placing a bet that people will want to use the Ethereum network\u2019s computing capabilities and will need the currency to do so. But that is far from a sure thing. And real-world use of the network is still scant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent survey of 1,100 virtual currency users, 94 percent were positive about the state of Ethereum, while only 49 percent were positive about Bitcoin, the industry publication CoinDesk said this month. Source: Move Over, Bitcoin. Ether Is the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16842\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[742,1379,1415,525],"class_list":["post-16842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-bitcoin","tag-crypto-currency","tag-ethereum","tag-market-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16843,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16842\/revisions\/16843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}