{"id":953,"date":"2013-12-05T07:20:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T12:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/?p=953"},"modified":"2013-12-05T07:20:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T12:20:47","slug":"a-little-bitcoin-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/2013\/a-little-bitcoin-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Bitcoin Experiment."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago, <a title=\"Site 3 CoLaboratory\" href=\"http:\/\/site3.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Site 3 CoLaboratory<\/a> held a little, informal bitcoin themes open house. Even though it&#8217;s likely too late to jump on the BitCoin Bandwagon to strike it rich, it&#8217;s still an interesting idea, and an interesting thing to play with, so I installed a BitCoin wallet<\/p>\n<p>At around 4 in the morning, I created a little page, <a title=\"Kyle Clements' BitCoin Page\" href=\"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/bitcoin.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/bitcoin.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All it contains is a single line of text, a number, and which is just that number in an easy, machine-readable form.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Send Kyle some BitCoins: 1Ns9ck9gr2BMrgThVNmF3uYGc5947cnuNt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bitcoing_qr.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-957\" alt=\"bitcoing_qr\" src=\"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bitcoing_qr.gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I tweeted about it at 4:09, and by 6:34, I had receive my first transaction.  Wow. The internet can be a surprizingly altruistic place sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago, Site 3 CoLaboratory held a little, informal bitcoin themes open house. Even though it&#8217;s likely too late to jump on the BitCoin Bandwagon to strike it rich, it&#8217;s still an interesting idea, and an interesting thing to play with, so I installed a BitCoin wallet At around 4 in the morning, I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/2013\/a-little-bitcoin-experiment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Little Bitcoin Experiment.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[178,27,179,46],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moneystuff","tag-bitcoin","tag-blog","tag-btc","tag-why-not"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}