{"id":77868,"date":"2021-04-13T00:56:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T04:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=77868"},"modified":"2021-04-13T00:46:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T04:46:31","slug":"ceo-of-a-top-bitcoin-exchange-warns-a-crackdown-on-cryptocurrencies-may-be-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2021\/ceo-of-a-top-bitcoin-exchange-warns-a-crackdown-on-cryptocurrencies-may-be-coming.html","title":{"rendered":"CEO of a top bitcoin exchange warns a crackdown on cryptocurrencies may be coming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Governments around the world may start to clamp down on the use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/bitcoin\/\">bitcoin<\/a> and other cryptocurrencies, the CEO of a top crypto exchange has warned. A number of officials \u2014 from U.S. Treasury Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/janet-yellen\/\">Janet Yellen<\/a> to European Central Bank President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/christine-lagarde\/\">Christine Lagarde<\/a> \u2014 have sounded the alarm about the use of bitcoin for money laundering, terrorist financing and other illegal activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/04\/12\/bitcoin-kraken-ceo-jesse-powell-warns-of-cryptocurrency-crackdown.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Governments around the world may start to clamp down on the use of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, the CEO of a top crypto exchange has warned. A number of officials \u2014 from U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77869,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77868\/revisions\/77869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}