{"id":839,"date":"2016-03-31T09:40:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T09:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/?p=839"},"modified":"2016-05-05T15:08:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T15:08:48","slug":"episode-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/episode-49\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode #49: Welterweight Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/4261115\/height\/90\/width\/640\/theme\/custom\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/no-cache\/true\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/f9c303\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"one-half column\">Episode 49<\/div><div class=\"one-half column last\">March 31, 2016 \u2014 67 mins<\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div> <strong>Guests: <a href=\"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/artist\/jon-fitch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Fitch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jon Fitch says he is \u201ctoo good anywhere\u201d for most welterweights in MMA. We tend to agree. This weekend he will collide with Joao \u201cThe Brazilian Samurai\u201d Zeferino for the vacant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsof.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">World Series of Fighting<\/a> welterweight (170 pounds) championship at stake. As we anticipate the weigh-ins tomorrow and the actual fight, we talk a bit about being the first MMA fighter to be fully paid in bitcoin. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SF736BD5Wd\" target=\"_blank\">Fitch<\/a> loves cryptocurrency and he thinks it is bringing about a new form of commerce. In addition we talk about Zuffa, the legalization of MMA in New York, Joe Rogan, bringing the Muhammad Ali Act into MMA, and more! Tony Swish and Cello are your guys on the 1&#8217;s &amp; 2&#8217;s while the normal gang sit in for this special mid-week roundtable. Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit&#8217;s Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiime!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guests: Jon Fitch Jon Fitch says he is \u201ctoo good anywhere\u201d for most welterweights in MMA. We tend to agree. This weekend he will collide with Joao \u201cThe Brazilian Samurai\u201d Zeferino for the vacant World Series of Fighting welterweight (170 pounds) championship at stake. As we anticipate the weigh-ins tomorrow and the actual fight, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":857,"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\/839"}],"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=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}