{"id":26050,"date":"2014-09-18T07:44:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T11:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=26050"},"modified":"2014-09-18T07:44:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T11:44:01","slug":"cryptocurrency-round-up-bitcoin-plummets-peercoin-soars-and-overstock-donates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/cryptocurrency\/cryptocurrency-round-up-bitcoin-plummets-peercoin-soars-and-overstock-donates.php","title":{"rendered":"Cryptocurrency Round-Up: Bitcoin plummets, Peercoin Soars and Overstock Donates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>      Bitcoin's price has      continued to fall, while peercoin, namecoin and dogecoin all      experience a surge.(IBTimes      UK)    <\/p>\n<p>    The price of bitcoin has has continued to fall in the last 24    hours, bringing the cryptocurrency's total price-drop over the    last three days to $30 (18, 23).  <\/p>\n<p>    There is no clear reason for this decline. Recent positive    developments would hint at its price going the other way, with    news of possible PayPal integration, a new Digital Currency    Council, and Coinbase extending its services internationally.  <\/p>\n<p>      Bitcoin's market      capitalisation has fallen below $6bn for the first time since      May.(CoinMarketCap)    <\/p>\n<p>    Other major cryptocurrencies have fared better, with namecoin    and dogecoin both seeing their values climb since yesterday.  <\/p>\n<p>    Most sensational of all has been peercoin, which saw its price more than double in    the last two days. It has now leapt past dogecoin to become the    world's third most valuable (mineable) digital currency.  <\/p>\n<p>    Overstock to donate to cryptocurrency    advocates  <\/p>\n<p>    Online marketplace Overstock, currently the largest retailer to    accept bitcoin, has announced that it is to donate 4% of its    bitcoin revenue to foundations that advocate cryptocurrency    adoption.  <\/p>\n<p>    Last week the firm revealed that it was extending its    acceptance of bitcoin to international customers in an effort    to build on the success it had experienced in the US with    bitcoin.  <\/p>\n<p>    Its latest move will initially see the Chamber of Digital    Commerce benefit from Overstock's support.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>See more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/cryptocurrency-round-bitcoin-plummets-peercoin-soars-overstock-donates-1466057\/RK=0\/RS=bw0NUwzHJZoxmwHBExoDkg2d8d4-\" title=\"Cryptocurrency Round-Up: Bitcoin plummets, Peercoin Soars and Overstock Donates\">Cryptocurrency Round-Up: Bitcoin plummets, Peercoin Soars and Overstock Donates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Bitcoin's price has continued to fall, while peercoin, namecoin and dogecoin all experience a surge.(IBTimes UK) The price of bitcoin has has continued to fall in the last 24 hours, bringing the cryptocurrency's total price-drop over the last three days to $30 (18, 23). There is no clear reason for this decline. Recent positive developments would hint at its price going the other way, with news of possible PayPal integration, a new Digital Currency Council, and Coinbase extending its services internationally<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[869],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}