{"id":89076,"date":"2019-03-30T15:44:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T22:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/not-surprisingly-a-u-s-bank-bans-customers-from-buying-bitcoin"},"modified":"2019-03-30T15:44:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T22:44:58","slug":"not-surprisingly-a-u-s-bank-bans-customers-from-buying-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/not-surprisingly-a-u-s-bank-bans-customers-from-buying-bitcoin","title":{"rendered":"[Not Surprisingly], a U.S. Bank Bans Customers From Buying Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/not-surprisingly-a-u-s-bank-bans-customers-from-buying-bitcoin.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regions Financial Corporation has barred its customers from purchasing cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>The US-based bank and financial service clarified in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.regions.com\/virtualdocuments\/Deposit_Agreement_6_1_2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">2018 bank deposit agreement<\/a> that it reserved the right to \u201creturn or decline to pay\u201d for items related to \u201cdecentralized, non-fiat virtual currencies, cryptocurrency or another digital currency or money that relies on distributed ledger or blockchain.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p>2018 Regions Bank Deposit Agreement <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephendpalley\/status\/1111741261210374145\/photo\/1\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/mDtEr5T1ep\">pic.twitter.com\/mDtEr5T1ep<\/a><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/2019\/03\/30\/not-surprisingly-a-u-s-bank-bans-customers-from-buying-bitcoin\/\">https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/2019\/03\/30\/not-surprisingly-a-u-s-ba...g-bitcoin\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regions Financial Corporation has barred its customers from purchasing cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin. The US-based bank and financial service clarified in its 2018 bank deposit agreement that it reserved the right to \u201creturn or decline to pay\u201d for items related to \u201cdecentralized, non-fiat virtual currencies, cryptocurrency or another digital currency or money that relies on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1761,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cryptocurrencies","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89076","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}