{"id":2963,"date":"2018-02-14T11:54:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T16:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/?p=2963"},"modified":"2018-02-14T11:54:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T16:54:12","slug":"the-rise-of-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2018\/02\/14\/the-rise-of-cryptocurrency\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of Cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I thought that it would be fun to discuss the rise of cryptocurrency this week, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-venezuela-economy-cryptocurrency\/u-s-warns-investors-over-venezuelas-petro-cryptocurrency-idUSKBN1F52AB\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">especially as this month marks the creation\/marketization of Venezuela&#8217;s petro currency<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a last ditch effort by the Venezuelan government to save the economy and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/venezuelas-own-bitcoin-like-cryptocurrency-the-petro\/a-42052601\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reverse the hyperinflation of the bolivar<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. I\u2019ve seen a lot of self-proclaimed \u201cbitcoin entrepreneurs\u201d across my Linkedin, usually younger <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/business-report\/entrepreneurs\/16-year-old-bitcoin-entrepreneur-is-making-money-12788134\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">undergraduates<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u00a0and I think this phenomenon is really strange and interesting. Apparently it\u2019s not that hard to achieve the title, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/278745\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">this article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, says we can do it in just five easy steps. Anyone here participating in the student <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bravenewcoin.com\/news\/young-bitcoin-entrepreneurs-are-trailblazing-for-crypto-currency\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bitcoin Revolution<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">? <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought that it would be fun to discuss the rise of cryptocurrency this week, especially as this month marks the creation\/marketization of Venezuela&#8217;s petro currency, a last ditch effort by the Venezuelan government to save the economy and reverse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2018\/02\/14\/the-rise-of-cryptocurrency\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2884,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2884"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2964,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions\/2964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}