{"id":30370,"date":"2019-01-24T06:22:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T06:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30370"},"modified":"2019-01-24T06:22:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T06:22:53","slug":"crypto-was-hot-at-davos-last-year-now-not-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30370","title":{"rendered":"Crypto was hot at Davos last year. Now, not so much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Davos, Switzerland (CNN Business)<\/cite>When the global business elite last gathered in Davos for their annual shindig, one bitcoin was worth $10,000. This year, a unit of the cryptocurrency buys just $3,560.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Bitcoin, its alternatives and the technology that underpins them were a major talking point at last year&#8217;s World Economic Forum. The collapse in value is reflected in a much lower profile this time around.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The &#8220;CRYPTO&#8221; and &#8220;BLOCKCHAIN&#8221; signs that littered the Ski resort&#8217;s promenade last year have all but disappeared, and bitcoin has virtually vanished from the official forum agenda. There <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/01\/26\/technology\/davos-bitcoin-currency-asset\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">was a line to get into last year&#8217;s big panel debate<\/a> on cryptocurrencies; there were plenty of empty seats on Wednesday.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davos, Switzerland (CNN Business)When the global business elite last gathered in Davos for their annual shindig, one bitcoin was worth $10,000. This year, a unit of the cryptocurrency buys just $3,560.Bitcoin, its alternatives and the technology that underpins them were a major talking point at last year&#8217;s World Economic Forum. The collapse in value is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}