{"id":266,"date":"2014-12-22T19:15:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T18:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labo.mathieurella.fr\/?p=266"},"modified":"2020-05-12T19:57:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T17:57:32","slug":"i-bought-my-first-bitcoin-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labo.mathieurella.fr\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"I Bought My First Bitcoin Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 22 2014<\/p>\n<p>Well my curiosity got the best of me, I decided to take the plunge, I Bought Bitcoin.<br \/>\nLet me explain<br \/>\nFor the last 2 month I tried to understand what bitcoin was and why we should use it. After some research it was always associated to the word Blockchain.<br \/>\nWTF is this ?<br \/>\nLet be honest, i&#8217;m still confuse with those terms so i&#8217;m not going to try to define them with precision but one specificity is to enable encrypted transaction without middleman (ex: bank).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a student and every month my bank take fees out of my transaction, I hate it but it&#8217;s a business model commonly used by bank,the worst is that they make us believe that it&#8217;s normal because they are the middle man, but it&#8217;s definitly not normal, not at this rates.<\/p>\n<p>as a wise man once said &#8220;Small economies make big fortunes.&#8221; &#8211;> it&#8217;s a french adage<\/p>\n<p>Without middleman, Transaction fee could vanish and at the end of the month I could have extra \u20ac to save.<br \/>\nIn reality Fee will continue to exist at least to pay energy used to make this transaction possible.<br \/>\nAt the End the Fee will still be Lower.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s now have a more global vision, have you ever heard of African remittances. It represent 414B $, it&#8217;s huge right ? and the average cost of fund transfer is about 9% in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Now let me ask you how significantly do you think Blockchain and Bitcoin could impact the face of those developing country only by reducing fee transfer ?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just one point I wanted to highlight, bc it&#8217;s everyone concerns and that what make me bought my first Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>See you in the next one \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 22 2014 Well my curiosity got the best of me, I decided to take the plunge, I Bought Bitcoin. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labo.mathieurella.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labo.mathieurella.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labo.mathieurella.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labo.mathieurella.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labo.mathieurella.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.labo.mathieurella.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/www.labo.mathieurella.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labo.mathieurella.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labo.mathieurella.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labo.mathieurella.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labo.mathieurella.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}