{"id":688,"date":"2017-11-07T12:04:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T17:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/?p=688"},"modified":"2017-11-07T12:04:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T17:04:30","slug":"that-sounds-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2017\/11\/07\/that-sounds-familiar\/","title":{"rendered":"That Sounds Familiar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading a New Yorker article (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/business\/currency\/what-is-the-nature-of-a-digital-coin-paris-hilton-might-know-but-the-sec-doesnt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Link<\/a> ) about a new type of cryptocurrency that a company was using to fund its operations. \u00a0As I was reading, it sounded very familiar. \u00a0In my 2007 novel <a href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/books\/emperor-dad\/\">Emperor Dad<\/a>, my rogue inventor who had created teleportation had, for noble reasons, declared himself Emperor of Earth. \u00a0Now, working in the shadows with police of all nations looking for him, he had to fund his own operations. \u00a0Using his teleportation, he stole what equipment he needed, but &#8216;paid&#8217; for it with his own unique money. \u00a0Then, when he peddled his services on the world market, he accepted payment in his imperial currency, building a demand for the bills. \u00a0While I used fancy printed paper bills and their new stuff is all digital blockchain stuff, the financial model is the same\u2014a unique currency to pay for unique services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading a New Yorker article (Link ) about a new type of cryptocurrency that a company was using to fund its operations. \u00a0As I was reading, it sounded very familiar. \u00a0In my 2007 novel Emperor Dad, my rogue inventor who had created teleportation had, for noble reasons, declared himself Emperor of Earth. \u00a0Now,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2017\/11\/07\/that-sounds-familiar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">That Sounds Familiar<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-b6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}