{"id":467985,"date":"2025-07-27T11:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T11:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=743337"},"modified":"2025-07-27T11:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T11:30:19","slug":"has-bitcoin-been-co-opted-ancient-whales-sale-examined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/27\/has-bitcoin-been-co-opted-ancient-whales-sale-examined\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Bitcoin Been Co-Opted? Ancient Whale\u2019s Sale Examined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/bitcoin_co-opted-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Has Bitcoin Been Co-Opted? Ancient Whale&#039;s Sale Examined\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Scott Melker, host of The Wolf of All Streets podcast and cryptocurrency analyst, has weighed in on the possibility of bitcoin being co-opted from its original purpose with the recent sales of giant whales. Melker\u2019s opinion sparked a debate on the meaning of this on social media. Has Bitcoin Been Co-Opted, or Is This an [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Melker, host of The Wolf of All Streets podcast and cryptocurrency analyst, has weighed in on the possibility of bitcoin being co-opted from its original purpose with the recent sales of giant whales. Melker\u2019s opinion sparked a debate on the meaning of this on social media. Has Bitcoin Been Co-Opted, or Is This an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":467986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-467985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}