{"id":274383,"date":"2018-09-05T16:36:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T14:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=274383"},"modified":"2018-09-05T16:37:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T14:37:22","slug":"shapeshift-reveals-new-membership-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/274383-shapeshift-reveals-new-membership-programme.html","title":{"rendered":"ShapeShift reveals new membership programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/info.shapeshift.io\/blog\/2018\/09\/04\/introducing-shapeshift-membership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a><\/strong> the release of ShapeShift Membership, a loyalty programme for the popular cryptocurrency exchange platform.<\/p>\n<p>This is a major shift away from the company&#8217;s previous model, which was centered around not requiring users to register an account.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, cryptocurrency owners could simply use the ShapeShift platform to exchange one cryptocurrency for another &#8211; no registration required.<\/p>\n<p>Voorhees said that the new membership programme would eventually become mandatory for all users, requiring them to log in if they wanted to exchange cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>After membership becomes mandatory, users will need to divulge basic personal information to the platform in order to use the ShapeShift service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The practice of requiring customers to hand over personal private information is one we\u2019ve struggled with since inception,&#8221; Voorhees said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To the extent that digital asset technology remains a legal grey area, we need to be prudent and thoughtful in our approach as we navigate the regulatory environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Different levels of membership will reportedly offer a number of benefits to users, including higher trading limits, early access to new coins, and private market data.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/258457-telegram-scraps-its-plans-for-a-public-ico.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Telegram scraps its plans for a public ICO<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees has announced the release of ShapeShift Membership, a loyalty programme for the popular cryptocurrency exchange platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":274385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44696],"tags":[47264,53635,53637,53633],"class_list":["post-274383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-cryptocurrency-exchange","tag-erik-voorhees","tag-membership","tag-shapeshift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274387,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274383\/revisions\/274387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}