{"id":128515,"date":"2020-03-21T01:53:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T01:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=128515"},"modified":"2020-03-21T01:57:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T01:57:38","slug":"steem-community-fights-justin-sun-with-hostile-hard-fork-catalyzing-massive-volatility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/steem-community-fights-justin-sun-with-hostile-hard-fork-catalyzing-massive-volatility\/","title":{"rendered":"Steem community fights Justin Sun with hostile hard fork, catalyzing massive volatility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Steem blockchain has seen its fair share of controversy over the past several weeks, which all began after the Justin Sun-led TRON acquired Steemit in mid-February.<\/p>\n<p>This controversy appears to have reached a boiling point earlier this week when the Steem community exercised its voting power in order to hard fork the blockchain, leading to the creation of a new token that is now being distributed to Steem holders.<\/p>\n<p>This has generated some immense volatility for Steem\u2019s price, with the token rocketing over 250 percent yesterday before erasing the bulk of these gains in a brutal trading session today.<\/p>\n<h2>Steem community fights back against Justin Sun, conducts hostile hard fork<\/h2>\n<p>As previously <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/top-steemit-employee-resigns-following-tron-acquisition-is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end\/\">reported by CryptoSlate<\/a>, Justin Sun\u2019s newfound involvement with Steem has created significant tension within the blockchain\u2019s community, with Sun and a handful of major exchanges conducting what was widely viewed as \u201chostile takeover\u201d of the blockchain.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_126971\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-126971\" style=\"width: 478px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/top-steemit-employee-resigns-following-tron-acquisition-is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-126971\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/steemit-exit-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"Top Steemit employee resigns following TRON acquisition; is this the beginning of the end?\" width=\"478\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/steemit-exit-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/steemit-exit-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/steemit-exit-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/steemit-exit.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-126971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/top-steemit-employee-resigns-following-tron-acquisition-is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end\/\">Top Steemit employee resigns following TRON acquisition; is this the beginning of the end?<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This came about after some major exchanges used depositors\u2019 tokens to take control of the Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPoS) blockchain after Sun claimed that the platform was subjected to a \u201chack\u201d attempt that led to the core platform team\u2019s tokens to be frozen.<\/p>\n<p>Although Sun tried justified his actions in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justinsuntron\/status\/1234690483298820097\">tweet thread<\/a>, it doesn\u2019t appear that the Steem community has been pleased with his involvement within the blockchain, as community leaders are now attempting to subvert Sun\u2019s control over the platform via a hard fork.<\/p>\n<p>A portion of the Steem blockchain is now migrating to Hive.io \u2013 a new platform with a similar community-focused structure \u2014 with all Steem holders receiving newly formed Hive tokens.<\/p>\n<p>In order to ensure that <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/justin-sun-darkest-hour-apologizes-over-marketing-tron\/\">Justin Sun<\/a> isn\u2019t able to influence the forked chain, the tokens within the original Steem development fund will not migrate to the Hive chain, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/steem-community-plans-hostile-hard-fork-to-flee-justin-suns-steemit?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=twitter&utm_term=Events&utm_content=Register&utm_campaign=FATF\">reported by CoinDesk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Token price sees massive volatility amidst hard fork<\/h2>\n<p>All of this controversy has catalyzed significant volatility for the Steem token, with its price rallying over 250 percent yesterday when it ran from lows of $0.12 to highs of over $0.40.<\/p>\n<p>In the time since this movement, its price has cratered 40 percent to its <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/steem\/\">current price<\/a> of $0.19, erasing most of its recent gains.<\/p>\n<p>Because a cooperative community is such a key aspect of Steem as a blockchain, it is highly probable that the polarizing actions recently undertaken by <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/justin-sun-is-allegedly-being-held-by-chinese-authorities\/\">Justin Sun<\/a> will degrade the blockchain\u2019s strength, potentially having negative impacts on its token price down the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Steem blockchain has seen its fair share of controversy over the past several weeks, which all began after the Justin Sun-led TRON acquired Steemit in mid-February. This controversy appears to have reached a boiling point earlier this week when the Steem community exercised its voting power in order to hard fork the blockchain, leading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":128520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15323],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.9 (Yoast SEO v21.9.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Steem community fights Justin Sun with hostile hard fork, catalyzing massive volatility<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Steem community exercised its voting power in order to hard fork the blockchain, which has subjected the token&#039;s price to immense volatility\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/steem-community-fights-justin-sun-with-hostile-hard-fork-catalyzing-massive-volatility\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Steem community fights Justin Sun with hostile hard fork, catalyzing massive volatility\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Steem community exercised its voting power in order to hard fork the blockchain, which has subjected the token&#039;s price to immense volatility\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/steem-community-fights-justin-sun-with-hostile-hard-fork-catalyzing-massive-volatility\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"CryptoSlate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-21T01:53:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-03-21T01:57:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/steemit-fork.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Cole Petersen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cryptoslate\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cryptoslate\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Cole Petersen\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/steem-community-fights-justin-sun-with-hostile-hard-fork-catalyzing-massive-volatility\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/steem-community-fights-justin-sun-with-hostile-hard-fork-catalyzing-massive-volatility\/\"},\"author\":{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/cole-petersen\/#person\",\"name\":\"Cole Petersen\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/cole-petersen\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/cole-petersen\/\"},\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/cole-petersen\/#authorimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/author-cole-petersen.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/author-cole-petersen.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Cole Petersen\"},\"jobTitle\":\"Journalist\",\"description\":\"Cole is a freelance journalist and university student studying philosophy. He focuses primarily on covering cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news. He ow...\",\"worksFor\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/#organization\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/x.com\/coIecp\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cole-petersen-1b7b72165\"]},\"headline\":\"Steem community fights Justin Sun with hostile hard fork, catalyzing massive volatility\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-21T01:53:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-03-21T01:57:38+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/steem-community-fights-justin-sun-with-hostile-hard-fork-catalyzing-massive-volatility\/\"},\"wordCount\":439,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Price Watch\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/steem-community-fights-justin-sun-with-hostile-hard-fork-catalyzing-massive-volatility\/#respond\"]}],\"copyrightYear\":\"2020\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/steem-community-fights-justin-sun-with-hostile-hard-fork-catalyzing-massive-volatility\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/steem-community-fights-justin-sun-with-hostile-hard-fork-catalyzing-massive-volatility\/\",\"name\":\"Steem community fights Justin Sun with hostile hard fork, catalyzing massive volatility\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-21T01:53:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-03-21T01:57:38+00:00\",\"description\":\"The Steem community exercised its voting power in order to hard fork the blockchain, which has subjected the token's price to immense volatility\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/steem-community-fights-justin-sun-with-hostile-hard-fork-catalyzing-massive-volatility\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/steem-community-fights-justin-sun-with-hostile-hard-fork-catalyzing-massive-volatility\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/steem-community-fights-justin-sun-with-hostile-hard-fork-catalyzing-massive-volatility\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Steem community fights Justin Sun with hostile hard fork, catalyzing massive volatility\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/\",\"name\":\"CryptoSlate\",\"description\":\"Cryptocurrency News and Real-time Coin Data\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/#organization\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"NewsMediaOrganization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"CryptoSlate\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/c-logo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/c-logo.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":1000,\"caption\":\"CryptoSlate\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cryptoslate\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cryptoslate\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/cryptoslate\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/cryptoslate\",\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.substack.com\",\"https:\/\/t.me\/cryptoslatenews\",\"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/cryptoslate\",\"https:\/\/iq.wiki\/wiki\/cryptoslate\",\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqKggKIiRDQklTRlFnTWFoRUtEMk55ZVhCMGIzTnNZWFJsTG1OdmJTZ0FQAQ\",\"https:\/\/muckrack.com\/media-outlet\/cryptoslate\",\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@cryptoslatenews\"],\"publishingPrinciples\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/editorial-policy\/#editorial-principles\",\"ownershipFundingInfo\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/disclaimers\/how-cryptoslate-makes-and-spends-money\/\",\"correctionsPolicy\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/editorial-policy\/#corrections-feedback\",\"ethicsPolicy\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/editorial-policy\/#editorial-principles\",\"foundingDate\":\"2017-08-04\",\"founder\":[{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"Nate Whitehill\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"Matthew Blancarte\"}],\"contactPoint\":[{\"@type\":\"ContactPoint\",\"contactType\":\"customer support\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/contact\/\",\"availableLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ContactPoint\",\"contactType\":\"sales\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/advertising\/\",\"availableLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ContactPoint\",\"contactType\":\"newsroom\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/editorial-policy\/#corrections-feedback\",\"email\":\"tips@cryptoslate.com\",\"availableLanguage\":\"en-US\"}],\"masthead\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/about\/#masthead\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2b1a128b1bb3b607728d78eeb99cf9c3\",\"name\":\"Cole Petersen\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/author-cole-petersen-150x150.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/author-cole-petersen-150x150.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Cole Petersen\"},\"description\":\"Cole is a freelance journalist and university student studying philosophy. He focuses primarily on covering cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news. He owns a non-life-changing sum of Bitcoin and enjoys day trading.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/cole-petersen\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Steem community fights Justin Sun with hostile hard fork, catalyzing massive volatility","description":"The Steem community exercised its voting power in order to hard fork the blockchain, which has subjected the token's price to immense volatility","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/steem-community-fights-justin-sun-with-hostile-hard-fork-catalyzing-massive-volatility\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Steem community fights Justin Sun with hostile hard fork, catalyzing massive volatility","og_description":"The Steem community exercised its voting power in order to hard fork the blockchain, which has subjected the token's price to immense volatility","og_url":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/steem-community-fights-justin-sun-with-hostile-hard-fork-catalyzing-massive-volatility\/","og_site_name":"CryptoSlate","article_published_time":"2020-03-21T01:53:43+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-03-21T01:57:38+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":630,"url":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/steemit-fork.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Cole Petersen","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@cryptoslate","twitter_site":"@cryptoslate","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Cole Petersen","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/steem-community-fights-justin-sun-with-hostile-hard-fork-catalyzing-massive-volatility\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/steem-community-fights-justin-sun-with-hostile-hard-fork-catalyzing-massive-volatility\/"},"author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/cole-petersen\/#person","name":"Cole Petersen","url":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/cole-petersen\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/cole-petersen\/"},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/cole-petersen\/#authorimage","url":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/author-cole-petersen.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/author-cole-petersen.jpg","caption":"Cole Petersen"},"jobTitle":"Journalist","description":"Cole is a freelance journalist and university student studying philosophy. He focuses primarily on covering cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news. He ow...","worksFor":{"@id":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/#organization"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/coIecp","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cole-petersen-1b7b72165"]},"headline":"Steem community fights Justin Sun with hostile hard fork, catalyzing massive volatility","datePublished":"2020-03-21T01:53:43+00:00","dateModified":"2020-03-21T01:57:38+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/steem-community-fights-justin-sun-with-hostile-hard-fork-catalyzing-massive-volatility\/"},"wordCount":439,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Price Watch"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/steem-community-fights-justin-sun-with-hostile-hard-fork-catalyzing-massive-volatility\/#respond"]}],"copyrightYear":"2020","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/steem-community-fights-justin-sun-with-hostile-hard-fork-catalyzing-massive-volatility\/","url":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/steem-community-fights-justin-sun-with-hostile-hard-fork-catalyzing-massive-volatility\/","name":"Steem community fights Justin Sun with hostile hard fork, catalyzing massive volatility","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-03-21T01:53:43+00:00","dateModified":"2020-03-21T01:57:38+00:00","description":"The Steem community exercised its voting power in order to hard fork the blockchain, which has subjected the token's price to immense volatility","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/steem-community-fights-justin-sun-with-hostile-hard-fork-catalyzing-massive-volatility\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/steem-community-fights-justin-sun-with-hostile-hard-fork-catalyzing-massive-volatility\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/steem-community-fights-justin-sun-with-hostile-hard-fork-catalyzing-massive-volatility\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Steem community fights Justin Sun with hostile hard fork, catalyzing massive volatility"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/","name":"CryptoSlate","description":"Cryptocurrency News and Real-time Coin Data","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/#organization"},"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/#organization","name":"CryptoSlate","url":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/c-logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/c-logo.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"caption":"CryptoSlate"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/cryptoslate","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cryptoslate","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/cryptoslate","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/cryptoslate","https:\/\/cryptoslate.substack.com","https:\/\/t.me\/cryptoslatenews","https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/cryptoslate","https:\/\/iq.wiki\/wiki\/cryptoslate","https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqKggKIiRDQklTRlFnTWFoRUtEMk55ZVhCMGIzTnNZWFJsTG1OdmJTZ0FQAQ","https:\/\/muckrack.com\/media-outlet\/cryptoslate","https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@cryptoslatenews"],"publishingPrinciples":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/editorial-policy\/#editorial-principles","ownershipFundingInfo":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/disclaimers\/how-cryptoslate-makes-and-spends-money\/","correctionsPolicy":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/editorial-policy\/#corrections-feedback","ethicsPolicy":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/editorial-policy\/#editorial-principles","foundingDate":"2017-08-04","founder":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nate Whitehill"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Matthew Blancarte"}],"contactPoint":[{"@type":"ContactPoint","contactType":"customer support","url":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/contact\/","availableLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ContactPoint","contactType":"sales","url":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/advertising\/","availableLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ContactPoint","contactType":"newsroom","url":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/editorial-policy\/#corrections-feedback","email":"tips@cryptoslate.com","availableLanguage":"en-US"}],"masthead":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/about\/#masthead"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2b1a128b1bb3b607728d78eeb99cf9c3","name":"Cole Petersen","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/author-cole-petersen-150x150.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/author-cole-petersen-150x150.jpg","caption":"Cole Petersen"},"description":"Cole is a freelance journalist and university student studying philosophy. He focuses primarily on covering cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news. He owns a non-life-changing sum of Bitcoin and enjoys day trading.","url":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/cole-petersen\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128515"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128523,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128515\/revisions\/128523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128515"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=128515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}