{"id":88386,"date":"2016-05-09T08:21:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T08:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=88386&#038;preview_id=88386"},"modified":"2016-05-09T08:21:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T08:21:50","slug":"pandoras-box-full-of-bitcoins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/pandoras-box-full-of-bitcoins\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandora\u2019s box full of bitcoins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cI don\u2019t want money, I don\u2019t want fame, I don\u2019t want adoration, I just want to be left alone.\u201d These were the words of Dr Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist, in his first and apparent last <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-36185280\">television interview<\/a><\/u>\u00a0following his admission that he invented the Bitcoin virtual currency.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But when your name is associated with the invention of a currency system that operates outside of the control of government and is widely used by shady underworld figures and criminals (as well as the occasional hipster in the trendy coffee shops or organic burger bars of Shoreditch), it\u2019s hard to put the lid back on the publicity box you\u2019ve so publically jumped out of.<\/p>\n<p>The creation of Bitcoins is, in some circles, being touted as the greatest invention since the Gutenberg printing press and the public interest in Craig\u2019s story will undoubtedly be fuelled by the speculation that he may himself own hundreds-of-millions of bitcoins.<\/p>\n<p>With so much interest in the story, you would think it an impossible task to withdraw yourself from the public gaze, especially in an age where every smartphone owner is a potential paparazzi or citizen journalist.<\/p>\n<p>But other equally successfully and publicity shy individuals have succeeded in living a life free of press scrutiny. The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_and_Frederick_Barclay\">Barclay brothers <\/a>and the late <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aldi\">Albrecht brothers<\/a> both succeeded in generating huge amounts of wealth while enjoying virtual public anonymity. Could Dr. Wright enjoy a similar status following his recent claims?<\/p>\n<p>Because PR is as much about keeping items out of the news as winning column inches, how would you advise a client like Dr. Wright to ensure he remains out of the headlines? Can life ever be normal for the Bitcoin entrepreneur or will his invention (and it\u2019s reputation) force him to live life behind closed doors?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want money, I don\u2019t want fame, I don\u2019t want adoration, I just want to be left alone.\u201d These were the words of Dr Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist, in his first and apparent last television interview following his admission that he invented the Bitcoin virtual currency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":88387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7272,7238],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}