{"id":346130,"date":"2018-01-31T04:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T03:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/half-the-world-will-be-using-cryptocurrencies-in-5-years\/"},"modified":"2018-01-31T04:50:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T03:50:30","slug":"half-the-world-will-be-using-cryptocurrencies-in-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/half-the-world-will-be-using-cryptocurrencies-in-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Half the world will be using cryptocurrencies in 5 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/business\/417332-bitcoin-blockchain-mcafee-5-years\/\"><strong>RT<\/strong><\/a><br \/>January 30, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cryptocurrencies will become a ubiquitous form of moolah in under half a decade, John McAfee told RT, doubling down on his optimistic forecast for cryptos despite bitcoin\u2019s recent slump.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn five years\u2019 time, over half the world, I promise you, will be using cryptocurrency,\u201d<\/em> the legendary security software pioneer told RT correspondent Miguel Francis-Santiago during the Asia blockchain cruise hosted by CoinsBank. <em>\u201cAnd the half that does not is going to be the half that probably does\u2019t have smartphones or any access to the internet,\u201d<\/em> McAfee added.<\/p>\n<p>The blockchain conference in Phuket, Thailand, boasted more than 1,000 participants from 50 different countries \u2013 including more than one hundred Russian ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings), which hoped to attract cryptocurrency investments to raise fast cash for their start-up companies.<\/p>\n<p>One of the more unique ICOs looking for crypto investors during the cruise was Mark Space, a Russian company that offers users an easily-customizable 3D virtual reality platform to develop and showcase their ideas or products. With the help of the company\u2019s <em>\u201cvirtual constructor,\u201d<\/em> users can effortlessly build virtual spaces \u2013 a process so easy that <em>\u201ceven kids can do it,\u201d<\/em> Mark Space co-founder Denis Polulyahov told RT.<\/p>\n<p>But while the cruise\u2019s enthusiastic participants soaked up the sun (and liquor), their precious bitcoins took an unwelcome dip. According to Bloomberg, when the cruise began, the price of Bitcoin was comfortably above $13,500. By the time their ship arrived in Thailand, bitcoin had slumped to $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>However, this didn\u2019t seem to bother the hundreds of blockchain disciples who attended the event, who shared McAfee\u2019s boisterous optimism for its bright future. McAfee himself has even promised to eat his own man meat if one bitcoin isn\u2019t priced at $1 million by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted:&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/mcafee-half-the-world-will-be-using-cryptocurrencies-in-5-years.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RTJanuary 30, 2018 Cryptocurrencies will become a ubiquitous form of moolah in under half a decade, John McAfee told RT, doubling down on his optimistic forecast for cryptos despite bitcoin\u2019s recent slump. \u201cIn five years\u2019 time, over half the world, I promise you, will be using cryptocurrency,\u201d the legendary security software pioneer told RT correspondent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}