{"id":80879,"date":"2022-03-03T00:43:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T05:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=80879"},"modified":"2022-03-03T01:00:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T06:00:28","slug":"bitcoin-sanctions-could-be-next-but-most-russians-wont-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2022\/bitcoin-sanctions-could-be-next-but-most-russians-wont-care.html","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin sanctions could be next, but most Russians won\u2019t care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) As Moscow\u2019s war on Ukraine rages on and the Russian economy and currency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/02\/28\/russian-ruble-dives-nearly-30percent-against-the-dollar-amid-sanctions-ukraine-crisis.html\">spiral to new lows<\/a>, Washington is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-02-28\/u-s-prods-crypto-exchanges-to-thwart-russia-sanctions-dodgers?sref=ctSjKj2N\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly trying out a new way<\/a> to dial up the pressure on Putin: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/russian-bitcoin-and-other-cryptocurrencies-could-be-part-of-future-sanctions-11645902740\" target=\"_blank\">sanctions targeting<\/a> cryptocurrencies like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/BTC.CB=\">bitcoin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/ETH.CM=\">ethereum<\/a>. The Department of Justice has announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/03\/02\/biden-administration-launches-new-task-force-to-go-after-crimes-of-russian-oligarchs.html\">new task force<\/a> broadly designed to enforce sanctions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/03\/02\/bitcoin-sanctions-could-be-next-as-doj-unveils-crypto-crackdown-plans.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) As Moscow\u2019s war on Ukraine rages on and the Russian economy and currency spiral to new lows, Washington is reportedly trying out a new way to dial up the pressure on Putin: sanctions targeting cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum. [&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-80879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80879","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=80879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80881,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80879\/revisions\/80881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}