{"id":69958,"date":"2026-08-20T03:11:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/crypto-from-speculative-asset-to-a-new-financial-system\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T03:11:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:11:50","slug":"crypto-from-speculative-asset-to-a-new-financial-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/crypto-from-speculative-asset-to-a-new-financial-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto: from speculative asset to a new financial system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something quite important is happening in cryptocurrency, and it is easy to miss if you spend too much time watching the price of bitcoin. For most of crypto\u2019s relatively short history, the discussion has been dominated by price. Bitcoin goes up. Bitcoin crashes. Ethereum rallies. Ethereum collapses. Somebody launches another token. Somebody loses a fortune&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/thefinanser.com\/2026\/08\/crypto-from-speculative-asset-to-a-new-financial-system\/\">Crypto: from speculative asset to a new financial system<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/thefinanser.com\/\">Chris Skinner&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something quite important is happening in cryptocurrency, and it is easy to miss if you spend too much time watching the price of bitcoin. For most of crypto\u2019s relatively short history, the discussion has been dominated by price. Bitcoin goes up. Bitcoin crashes. Ethereum rallies. Ethereum collapses. Somebody launches another token. Somebody loses a fortune&#8230;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fintech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}