{"id":22279,"date":"2018-03-02T07:14:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T05:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.radioislam.org.za\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/02\/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-scammed-out-of-bitcoins\/"},"modified":"2018-03-02T07:14:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T05:14:38","slug":"apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-scammed-out-of-bitcoins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-scammed-out-of-bitcoins\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Scammed Out of Bitcoins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News &#8211; 02-03-2018<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has lost almost $71,400 ( R 847,000) after someone bought seven bitcoins from him using a credit card, but cancelled the card after the bitcoin was transferred.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Engadget reports Wozniak bought the cryptocurrency when it was priced at $700 (R 8,300).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at The Economic Times of India&#8217;s global business summit this week Wozniak says the card was stolen, so there was no way to retrieve his lost assets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The blockchain identifies who has bitcoins &#8230; that doesn&#8217;t mean there can&#8217;t be fraud, though.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier this month Lloyds Banking Group, like several others, banned its customers from buying bitcoin with credit cards, in a bid to offer some protection in a landscape that remains largely ungoverned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many argue that if meaningful action is not being taken quickly enough and if tech legend Steve Wozniak can fall prey to this kind of fraud, anyone can.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaizelPatel143\" rel=\"alternate\">Twitter: @FaizelPatel143<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News &#8211; 02-03-2018 Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has lost almost $71,400 ( R 847,000) after someone bought seven bitcoins from him using a credit card, but cancelled the card after the bitcoin was transferred. Engadget reports Wozniak bought the cryptocurrency when it was priced at $700 (R 8,300). Speaking at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-5Nl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 19:24:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}