{"id":359,"date":"2012-04-24T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=359"},"modified":"2012-11-17T10:46:51","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T10:46:51","slug":"bitcoin-versus-american-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin versus American Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the <em>Future of Money and Technology<\/em> conference yesterday, the VP of American Express got an uncomfortable question (for him). His response caused amusement and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search\/realtime\/%23futureofmoney%20bitcoin\">tweetnoise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the benefit of the search enginges..<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Richard Nevins<\/strong> Q: What does Amex think about bitcoin? A: Next question. [cue laughter]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Christian Lanng<\/strong> Q: What do American Express think of BitCoin? A: Next Question (but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s disruptive)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Andrew Prell<\/strong> @Amex would not answer questions about #bitcoin<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Eric Chan<\/strong> Harshul Sanghi asked \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What does Amex think of Bitcoin?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ans: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Next question?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Bradley Leimer<\/strong> question about what they think of bitcoin: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcno comment\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 much laughter<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Rafe Needleman<\/strong> Amex\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Harshul Sanghi asked, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What does Amex think of Bitcoin?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ans: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Next question\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting points to note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The VP of Amex knows what Bitcoin is<\/li>\n<li>At least some of the audience know enough to ask Amex about Bitcoin<\/li>\n<li>The audience at a future money conference knows what Bitcoin is (the laughter tells us that)<\/li>\n<li>The audience senses enough discomfort from Amex over Bitcoin that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worth tweeting the response.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are reports that Bitcoin is being mention a lot at this conference. The financial services industry can see that writing is on the wall for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Future of Money and Technology conference yesterday, the VP of American Express got an uncomfortable question (for him). His response caused amusement and tweetnoise. For the benefit of the search enginges.. Richard Nevins Q: What does Amex think about bitcoin? A: Next question. [cue laughter] Christian Lanng Q: What do American Express think\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=359\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,1,53],"tags":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}