{"id":6844,"date":"2014-01-21T17:19:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T17:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/01\/21\/2-vegas-hotel-casinos-to-start-accepting-bitcoin\/"},"modified":"2014-01-21T17:19:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T17:19:19","slug":"2-vegas-hotel-casinos-to-start-accepting-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/01\/21\/2-vegas-hotel-casinos-to-start-accepting-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Vegas hotel-casinos to start accepting Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nLAS VEGAS (AP) \u2013 Two casinos in downtown Las Vegas plan to start accepting the online currency Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe D casino and the city\u2019s oldest casino, the Golden Gate, will accept Bitcoin at their hotel front desks beginning Wednesday. Bitcoins can also be used at the D\u2019s gift shop and two restaurants. They won\u2019t be accepted on the casino floor.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe co-owner of the D and the Golden Gate, Derek Stevens, says he\u2019s been intrigued by the currency for years and had talked with patrons who wondered if the casinos would use it.<\/p>\n<p>\tStevens says it\u2019s tough to forecast how many patrons will pay for their rooms and dinners with Bitcoin, but he predicts other casinos will start adopting it in the future.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2013 Two casinos in downtown Las Vegas plan to start accepting the online currency Bitcoin. The D casino and the city\u2019s oldest casino, the Golden Gate, will accept Bitcoin at their hotel front desks beginning Wednesday. Bitcoins&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-casino-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}