{"id":15993,"date":"2014-01-31T10:01:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T15:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=15993"},"modified":"2014-01-31T10:01:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T15:01:42","slug":"the-rise-and-fall-of-bitcoin-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/01\/31\/the-rise-and-fall-of-bitcoin-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"The rise and fall of Bitcoin mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Daily Dot<\/em> has the article <a title=\"The Daily Dot article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/business\/bitcoin-mining-pools-monopoly-rise-ghash\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The rise and fall of Bitcoin mining<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Earlier this month, fans of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dailydot.com\/tags\/bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bitcoin<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; the world\u2019s most popular digital currency\u2014were caught in a whirl of panic as one group threatened to corner the market for new bitcoins.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reader WayneP has been bugging me with the question\u00a0 &#8220;Is Bitcoin foolproof?&#8221;\u00a0 I brushed this question aside as irrelevant.\u00a0 Well, with this article I am starting to see Wayne&#8217;s point.\u00a0 The article does a nice job of putting the issue in context.\u00a0 Further, it does explain some of the mystery that I felt about the issue of mining.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for the continuing saga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Dot has the article The rise and fall of Bitcoin mining. Earlier this month, fans of Bitcoin &#8211; the world\u2019s most popular digital currency\u2014were caught in a whirl of panic as one group threatened to corner the market for new bitcoins. Reader WayneP has been bugging me with the question\u00a0 &#8220;Is Bitcoin foolproof?&#8221;\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15995,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15993\/revisions\/15995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}