{"id":969733,"date":"2023-01-26T06:59:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T06:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=272487"},"modified":"2023-01-26T06:59:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T06:59:40","slug":"the-u-s-congress-twiddled-its-thumbs-on-crypto-while-10-countries-banned-it-and-42-others-placed-heavy-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/01\/26\/the-u-s-congress-twiddled-its-thumbs-on-crypto-while-10-countries-banned-it-and-42-others-placed-heavy-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Congress Twiddled Its Thumbs on Crypto while 10 Countries Banned It and 42 Others Placed Heavy Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 31 of last year, Oliver Sullivan reported at Lawyer Monthly that the growing list of countries \u201cthat wholly banned cryptocurrencies includes China, Egypt, Iraq, Qatar, Oman, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Bangladesh and (as of this month) Kosovo. Forty-two others have passed restrictions to this effect, prohibiting crypto exchanges or limiting the ability of banks  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/26\/the-u-s-congress-twiddled-its-thumbs-on-crypto-while-10-countries-banned-it-and-42-others-placed-heavy-restrictions\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/26\/the-u-s-congress-twiddled-its-thumbs-on-crypto-while-10-countries-banned-it-and-42-others-placed-heavy-restrictions\/\">The U.S. Congress Twiddled Its Thumbs on Crypto while 10 Countries Banned It and 42 Others Placed Heavy Restrictions<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/26\/the-u-s-congress-twiddled-its-thumbs-on-crypto-while-10-countries-banned-it-and-42-others-placed-heavy-restrictions\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 31 of last year, Oliver Sullivan reported at Lawyer Monthly that the growing list of countries \u201cthat wholly banned cryptocurrencies includes China, Egypt, Iraq, Qatar, Oman, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Bangladesh and (as of this month) Kosovo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969734,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969733\/revisions\/969734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}