{"id":473796,"date":"2025-08-10T10:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T10:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=747382"},"modified":"2025-08-10T10:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T10:30:15","slug":"crypto-critic-schiff-says-bitcoin-is-useful-just-not-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/10\/crypto-critic-schiff-says-bitcoin-is-useful-just-not-for-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Critic Schiff Says Bitcoin Is \u2018Useful\u2019\u2014Just Not for Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ron-paul-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Crypto Critic Schiff Says Bitcoin Is &#039;Useful&#039;\u2014Just Not for Him\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Economist and crypto critic Peter Schiff recently gave a surprising endorsement for bitcoin donations to Ron Paul, who celebrated his 90th birthday on August 9. In a post on X, Schiff stated that such donations are &#8220;actually something useful&#8221; because the Ron Paul Institute can simply convert the cryptocurrency to fiat currency and &#8220;put it [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economist and crypto critic Peter Schiff recently gave a surprising endorsement for bitcoin donations to Ron Paul, who celebrated his 90th birthday on August 9. In a post on X, Schiff stated that such donations are &#8220;actually something useful&#8221; because the Ron Paul Institute can simply convert the cryptocurrency to fiat currency and &#8220;put it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":473797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-473796","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\/473796","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=473796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}