{"id":2619,"date":"2020-11-02T11:09:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T11:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/09\/the-writings-on-the-wall%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8acrypto-is-here\/"},"modified":"2020-11-02T11:09:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T11:09:50","slug":"the-writings-on-the-wall%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8acrypto-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/zh\/09\/the-writings-on-the-wall%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8acrypto-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"The Writing\u2019s on the Wall\u200a\u2014\u200aCrypto is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent announcements by PayPal and Asian bank DBS signals that the institutional players are making big forays into crypto. But there is still a big caveat about the PayPal offering.American rock band Ok Go masters the optical illusionsMy stylist, Cinta, was sitting next to me at the front of the conference. She couldn\u2019t resist the endless foo foo re-touching of my hair. She was just nervous as she is the next scheduled speaker \u2014 the owner of San Francisco\u2019s renowned Cinta Salon.It\u2019s April 2000 and the Viral Marketing Conference is a SF Bay Area who\u2019s who of movers and shakers in the dotcom space. Besides Cinta, other notable speakers included Steve Jurvetson of VC firm, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Craig Newmark of Craigslist. Even Apple\u2019s ex-CEO couldn\u2019t make the cut. All the star-powered people want to speak at my conference, said Jennifer Kaplan, the VP of Biz Dev at Gazooba, as she shuffled his index card into the trash pile.My then girlfriend and future ex-wife picks up a card from the maybe pile and looks at it. She asks, \u201cPeter Thiel, CEO of PayPal. Have you heard of PayPal? What do you think, you fat fuck?\u201d You\u2019ll have to pardon Jennifer\u2019s French after she watches an episode of The Sopranos.Peter, as it turns out, had the most interesting presentation. He challenged the very notion of money and its means of transmission and creation. After the conference, we had a reception at Circadia. Peter had an even bigger vision of what money could be. A form that is easier to store and to transfer.A form of money that did not entail the government, or fiat. In other words, there is no reason why money has to be tied or issued by a government. The governments are not the value producers. Quite\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PayPal\u548c\u4e9a\u6d32\u94f6\u884c\u661f\u5c55\u94f6\u884c\uff08DBS\uff09\u6700\u8fd1\u53d1\u5e03\u7684\u6d88\u606f\u8868\u660e\uff0c\u673a\u6784\u53c2\u4e0e\u8005\u6b63\u5728\u5927\u529b\u6d89\u8db3\u52a0\u5bc6\u8d27\u5e01\u9886\u57df\u3002\u4f46\u662f\u4ecd\u7136\u6709\u4e00\u4e2a\u5f88\u5927\u7684\u8b66\u544a<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}