{"id":326,"date":"2014-05-01T14:59:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T14:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/?p=326"},"modified":"2014-05-01T14:59:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T14:59:31","slug":"mit-goes-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/01\/mit-goes-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT goes Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is terrific news: \u00a0a couple of students want to give all undergrads $100 worth of Bitcoin. \u00a0Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.mit.edu\/V134\/N22\/bitcoin.html\" target=\"_blank\">news in MIT&#8217;s The Tech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWhile the specific properties of bitcoin have some real problems, getting everyone at MIT to start playing with bitcoin \u2026 will prompt the MIT community to begin thinking seriously about how we can live in an all-digital future.\u201d (Sandy Pentland)<\/li>\n<li>Rubin\u00a0and Elitzer want to see a bitcoin \u201cecosystem\u201d develop at MIT in which people are not only exchanging bitcoins but also experimenting with related technologies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is terrific news: \u00a0a couple of students want to give all undergrads $100 worth of Bitcoin. \u00a0Here is the news in MIT&#8217;s The Tech. Some highlights: \u201cWhile the specific properties of bitcoin have some real problems, getting everyone at MIT to start playing with bitcoin \u2026 will prompt the MIT community to begin thinking <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/01\/mit-goes-bitcoin\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hk6w-5g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}