{"id":21000,"date":"2014-02-10T09:48:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T14:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21000"},"modified":"2014-02-10T10:07:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T15:07:58","slug":"a-london-anglican-church-is-now-accepting-bitcoins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/a-london-anglican-church-is-now-accepting-bitcoins\/","title":{"rendered":"A London Anglican Church is now accepting bitcoins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-21003\" alt=\"stmartinschurch\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/stmartinschurch.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/stmartinschurch.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/stmartinschurch-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>St Martin\u2019s Anglican Church in the UK has started accepting bitcoins, the peer to peer Internet currency favoured by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2014\/jan\/28\/bitcoin-executive-resigns-money-laundering-silk-road-charlie-shrem\" target=\"_blank\">money launderers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/42ca6762-bbfc-11e2-82df-00144feab7de.html\" target=\"_blank\">organised crime<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/tech\/tech-news\/internet\/Bitcoin-used-in-drug-deals-in-Sweden-Report\/articleshow\/30151043.cms\" target=\"_blank\">drug dealers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the church wants to be \u201cin touch with what\u2019s going on around us\u201d and, in a way, I suppose it has succeeded. Anything to be relevant.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/london\/london-church-becomes-first-in-the-uk-to-accept-bitcoins-for-its-collection-9118955.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A London church has become the first in the country to accept internet currency Bitcoins in its collection plate.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev Chris Brice of St Martin\u2019s Anglican Parish Church in Gospel Oak said the innovation showed that \u201cwe are people in touch with what\u2019s going on around us\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Martin\u2019s Anglican Church in the UK has started accepting bitcoins, the peer to peer Internet currency favoured by money launderers, organised crime and drug dealers. Apparently, the church wants to be \u201cin touch with what\u2019s going on around us\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/a-london-anglican-church-is-now-accepting-bitcoins\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[1762,2089,1763],"class_list":["post-21000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","tag-bitcoin","tag-church-of-england","tag-st-martins-anglican-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}