{"id":12095,"date":"2019-02-13T19:11:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T19:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=12095"},"modified":"2019-02-13T19:11:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T19:11:13","slug":"foreign-policy-forget-bitcoin-try-your-mattress-by-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2019\/02\/13\/foreign-policy-forget-bitcoin-try-your-mattress-by-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Policy: Forget Bitcoin, Try Your Mattress \u2014 by me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s post is <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2019\/02\/13\/forget-bitcoin-try-your-mattress\/\">a piece in Foreign Policy,<\/a> no less. In which I attempt to explain how Bitcoin works to a lay audience.<\/p>\n<p>The brief from editor James Palmer was &#8220;this is why crypto&#8217;s implausible\/BS as an alternative national currency&#8221; using the latest fiascos, particularly the QuadrigaCX disaster, as a launching point.<\/p>\n<p>I may not get any more blog posts up this week, before leaving for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onassis.org\/whats-on\/blockchain-utopia-or-u-turn\">Greece<\/a> on Friday. In the meantime, though, you&#8217;ve got to see Amy Castor&#8217;s fantastic QuadrigaCX timeline: <a href=\"https:\/\/amycastor.com\/2019\/02\/12\/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events\/\">&#8220;How the hell did we get here?&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brief from editor James Palmer was &#8220;this is why crypto&#8217;s implausible\/BS as an alternative national currency&#8221; using the latest fiascos, particularly the QuadrigaCX disaster, as a launching point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[460,1150,938],"class_list":["post-12095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-amy-castor","tag-foreign-policy","tag-quadrigacx"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12096,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12095\/revisions\/12096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}