{"id":710,"date":"2016-02-21T20:55:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T20:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/?p=710"},"modified":"2016-02-21T23:14:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T23:14:48","slug":"episode-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/episode-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode #42: True Micropayments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/4164285\/height\/100\/width\/640\/theme\/custom\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/no-cache\/true\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/ffbb00\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"100\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"one-half column\">Episode 42<\/div><div class=\"one-half column last\">February 21, 2016 \u2014 62 mins<\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div> <strong>Guests: Valerian Bennett<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s only natural that we keep our eye on the rising tide of alternative content delivery platforms, particularly ones that incentivize decentralization using cryptocurrency.\u00a0It will likely take years of technical development before this suite of technologies is commercially viable. Yet, this mountain of computer engineering is not our greatest challenge. The real challenge is to build something that\u2019s actually worth building. Enter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/video.popchest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">PopChest<\/a>, a Santa Monica-based Bitcoin video startup,\u00a0where users can unlock their favorite content simply by paying in bitcoin.\u00a0To know more about PopChest and the platform decentralization process, we invite the platform creator, Valerian Bennett, onto the show to discuss his enthusiasm for the world-changing possibilities of Bitcoin.\u00a0Drop-dro-dro-dro-drop it like Robocop!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guests: Valerian Bennett It\u2019s only natural that we keep our eye on the rising tide of alternative content delivery platforms, particularly ones that incentivize decentralization using cryptocurrency.\u00a0It will likely take years of technical development before this suite of technologies is commercially viable. Yet, this mountain of computer engineering is not our greatest challenge. The real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","unlock_protocol_post_locks":"","publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}