{"id":18462,"date":"2020-12-25T22:47:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T22:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=18462"},"modified":"2020-12-25T22:48:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T22:48:40","slug":"todays-addition-to-the-fintech-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2020\/12\/25\/todays-addition-to-the-fintech-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s addition to the fintech arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Christmas, I was granted access to vital financial technology analysis material: a box of beers and a glass that can hold a 330ml bottle full.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas, and don&#8217;t take any wooden Libras.<\/p>\n<p>(pictured: Kwak amber ale, 8.4%. Sorry, the cat wasn&#8217;t around.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2020\/12\/25\/todays-addition-to-the-fintech-arsenal\/cheers-for-beers\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18463\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18463\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cheers-for-beers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cheers-for-beers.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cheers-for-beers-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cheers-for-beers-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cheers-for-beers-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>(we had another Bitcoin pump too, using the 400 million tethers from just yesterday. This managed a Bart &mdash; 1000 BTC up, 500 BTC down &mdash; that had the Coinbase price at $24,660.00, precisely, at 11:58 UTC. And a similar XRP Bart. Bitcoin is an orderly and well-regulated market, where the numbers totally mean things, and aren&#8217;t just hilariously fabricated nonsense.)<\/small> <\/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>Vital analysis tools for any finance blogger, I assure you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18464,"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":[],"class_list":["post-18462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cheers-for-beers-header.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18462","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=18462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18467,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18462\/revisions\/18467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}