{"id":17969,"date":"2022-02-28T10:21:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T15:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=17969"},"modified":"2022-02-28T10:21:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T15:21:39","slug":"50-of-transactions-were-fraudulent-when-steam-accepted-bitcoin-for-payments-says-gabe-newell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=17969","title":{"rendered":"‘50% of transactions were fraudulent’ when Steam accepted Bitcoin for payments, says Gabe Newell"},"content":{"rendered":"

No wonder Steam stopped taking cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n

Source: ‘50% of transactions were fraudulent’ when Steam accepted Bitcoin for payments, says Gabe Newell<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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this is pretty much how I feel:<\/p>\n

“”There’s a lot of really interesting technology in blockchains and figuring out how to do a distributed ledger, [but] I think that people haven’t figured out why you actually need a distributed ledger,” Newell said.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No wonder Steam stopped taking cryptocurrency. Source: ‘50% of transactions were fraudulent’…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[476,49,1165],"class_list":["post-17969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-bitcoin","tag-crypto","tag-gaming","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}