{"id":9781,"date":"2021-01-18T12:15:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T12:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/opinion\/article\/3118213\/stablecoins-southeast-asia-less-volatile-cryptocurrency-boon"},"modified":"2021-01-18T12:15:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T12:15:18","slug":"stablecoins-in-southeast-asia-the-less-volatile-cryptocurrency-is-a-boon-for-terrorist-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/18\/stablecoins-in-southeast-asia-the-less-volatile-cryptocurrency-is-a-boon-for-terrorist-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Stablecoins in Southeast Asia: the less volatile cryptocurrency is a boon for terrorist groups"},"content":{"rendered":"Cryptocurrencies have become a convenient medium for the movement of funds due to the high degree of anonymity offered by blockchain-diffused ledgers, and the operational ease of fund transfers across continents \u2013 both of which have been exploited by terrorist and criminal networks, and even states such as North Korea.\r\rNow, another form of cryptocurrencies \u2013 stablecoins \u2013 are making such illicit uses more viable, and raising regulators\u2019 eyebrows.\r\rIn the past, the broad use of cryptocurrencies\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/opinion\/article\/3118213\/stablecoins-southeast-asia-less-volatile-cryptocurrency-boon\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrencies have become a convenient medium for the movement of funds due to the high degree of anonymity offered by blockchain-diffused ledgers, and the operational ease of fund transfers across continents \u2013 both of which have been exploited by t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":997,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781"}],"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\/997"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9782,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781\/revisions\/9782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}