{"id":5241,"date":"2018-01-17T12:17:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T17:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2018\/01\/17\/5241\/"},"modified":"2018-01-17T12:19:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T17:19:27","slug":"5241","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2018\/01\/17\/5241\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Gold Rush rules<\/strong> apply to most ambitious undertakings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2158825-bitcoins-utopia-has-failed-as-big-players-hold-all-the-power\/amp\/\">but especially bitcoin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You can&#8217;t win if you don&#8217;t play.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s no merit in winning, only luck.<\/li>\n<li>The only way to lose is to quit.<\/li>\n<li>Eventually the dream is betrayed and everyone becomes a wage slave.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gold Rush rules apply to most ambitious undertakings, but especially bitcoin: You can&#8217;t win if you don&#8217;t play. There&#8217;s no merit in winning, only luck. The only way to lose is to quit. Eventually the dream is betrayed and everyone becomes a wage slave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2skW4-5241","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}