{"id":10333,"date":"2014-03-12T19:27:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T02:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10333"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:16:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:16:38","slug":"sen-manchin-demands-complete-us-ban-on-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/sen-manchin-demands-complete-us-ban-on-bitcoin","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Manchin demands complete US ban on Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"author\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/profile\/declan00\/\" rel=\"author\">Declan McCullagh<\/a> \u2014 CNET<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>A US senator is asking the federal government to take this remarkable step: completely ban Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Manchin, a Democratic senator representing West Virginia, sent a letter Wednesday to the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, and other regulators characterizing the virtual currency as encouraging \u201cillicit activity\u201d as well as being \u201chighly unstable and disruptive to our economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13578_3-57619592-38\/sen-manchin-demands-complete-us-ban-on-bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Declan McCullagh \u2014 CNET A US senator is asking the federal government to take this remarkable step: completely ban Bitcoin. Joe Manchin, a Democratic senator representing West Virginia, sent a letter Wednesday to the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, and other regulators characterizing the virtual currency as encouraging \u201cillicit activity\u201d as well as being \u201chighly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47190,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10333\/revisions\/47190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}