{"id":185792,"date":"2014-08-13T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T02:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/13\/gee-you-think-10\/"},"modified":"2014-08-13T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T02:53:00","slug":"gee-you-think-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/13\/gee-you-think-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Gee, You Think?!?!?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/jNp2QYd.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/jNp2QYd.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"270\" \/><\/a>In an exercise worthy of Captain Obvious, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/why-its-easier-to-rob-bitcoins-than-banks-2014-08-11\">CFPB is warning people that their Bitcoins are probably not safe from hackers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe CFPB advises consumers to be aware of potential issues with virtual currencies such as unclear costs, volatile exchange rates, the threat of hacking and scams, and that companies may not offer help or refunds for lost or stolen funds,\u201d the government agency announced in an advisory on Monday . Consumers who\u2019ve experienced problems with the virtual currency can also submit a complaint with the bureau, the CFPB said. \u201cVirtual currencies are not backed by any government or central bank, and at this point consumers are stepping into the Wild West when they engage in the market,\u201d it warned. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well duh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an exercise worthy of Captain Obvious, the CFPB is warning people that their Bitcoins are probably not safe from hackers: \u201cThe CFPB advises consumers to be aware of potential issues with virtual currencies such as unclear costs, volatile exchange rates, the threat of hacking and scams, and that companies may not offer help or &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060,1080,997,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-currency","category-internet","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}