{"id":35,"date":"2013-04-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2013\/04\/17\/post-28-bitcoin-buyer\/"},"modified":"2013-04-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T00:00:00","slug":"post-28-bitcoin-buyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/17\/post-28-bitcoin-buyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-28: Bitcoin Buyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">My coworker, C, told me that he intends to buy several-hundred-dollars-worth of Bitcoins, an all-digital currency not tied to any central bank. I don&#8217;t quite understand <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/economist-explains\/2013\/04\/economist-explains-how-does-bitcoin-work\">how it works<\/a>. I don&#8217;t know whether to be excited or scared.<\/p>\n<p><span>The value of Bitcoin has fluctuated a lot:<\/span> It reached over $200 in early April, but is now in the $60 range. Speculators cashed-out. My coworker explained to me that he intends to be a speculator, too. If he buys 10.0 Bitcoins at today&#8217;s $66 price (total paid: $660), and the value goes back up to $200, his 10.0 Bitcoins will be worth $2,000+.\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wsite-image wsite-image-border-hairline wsite-image-border-black\" style=\"padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center\">\n <a><br \/>\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/7895539_orig.png\" alt=\"Picture\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:997px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display:block;font-size:90%\">Value in U.S. Dollars of 1.00 Bitcoin, March and April 2013<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wsite-image wsite-image-border-hairline wsite-image-border-black\" style=\"padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center\">\n <a><br \/>\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/7763368_orig.png\" alt=\"Picture\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:990px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display:block;font-size:90%\">Value in USD of 1.00 Bitcoin, 2009 to Mid-April 2013<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My coworker, C, told me that he intends to buy several-hundred-dollars-worth of Bitcoins, an all-digital currency not tied to any central bank. I don&#8217;t quite understand how it works. I don&#8217;t know whether to be excited or scared. The value of Bitcoin has fluctuated a lot: It reached over $200 in early April, but is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}