{"id":591139,"date":"2019-03-13T09:50:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T13:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=2d0e9c86dd454e79de7710b5f7ab3e10"},"modified":"2019-03-13T09:50:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T13:50:15","slug":"facebooks-cryptocurrency-a-financial-expert-breaks-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=591139","title":{"rendered":"Facebook&#8217;s cryptocurrency: a financial expert breaks it down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is reportedly preparing to launch its own version of Bitcoin, for use in its messaging applications, WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram. Could this &#8220;Facecoin&#8221; be the long-awaited breakthrough by a global technology giant into the lucrative market for retail financial services? Or will it be yet another exaggerated &#8220;crypto&#8221; project, buying into the continuing excitement about decentralised peer-to-peer exchange but, in the end, not delivering very much? Time will tell, but my two decades of research into the economics of payments makes me sceptical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is reportedly preparing to launch its own version of Bitcoin, for use in its messaging applications, WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram. Could this &#8220;Facecoin&#8221; be the long-awaited breakthrough by a global technology giant into the lucrative mark&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591140,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591139\/revisions\/591140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}