{"id":77330,"date":"2021-02-23T00:24:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T05:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=77330"},"modified":"2021-02-22T20:29:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T01:29:31","slug":"yellen-sounds-warning-about-extremely-inefficient-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2021\/yellen-sounds-warning-about-extremely-inefficient-bitcoin.html","title":{"rendered":"Yellen sounds warning about \u2018extremely inefficient\u2019 bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen issued a warning Monday about the dangers that bitcoin poses both to investors and the public. Despite a sharp slide in price to start the week, the cryptocurrency continues to trade above $53,000 as it has received boosts from various sources. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/elon-musk\/\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/TSLA\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla<\/a> recently made a substantial purchase and has said it will accept bitcoin for transactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/02\/22\/yellen-sounds-warning-about-extremely-inefficient-bitcoin.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen issued a warning Monday about the dangers that bitcoin poses both to investors and the public. Despite a sharp slide in price to start the week, the cryptocurrency continues to trade above $53,000 as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77331,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77330\/revisions\/77331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}