{"id":9578,"date":"2013-12-23T22:37:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T06:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9578"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:22:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:22:33","slug":"singapore-government-decides-not-to-interfere-with-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/singapore-government-decides-not-to-interfere-with-bitcoin","title":{"rendered":"Singapore Government Decides Not to Interfere With Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline basic\">Terence Lee<\/span> for <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/publishers\/tech-in-asia\/\">Tech in Asia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mas.gov.sg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)<\/a>, the country\u2019s central bank, has decided not to intervene on whether businesses can accept Bitcoin as a means of transacting goods and services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether or not businesses accept bitcoins in exchange for their goods and services is a commercial decision in which MAS does not intervene,\u201d it told Singapore-based Bitcoin trading platform <a href=\"http:\/\/coinrepublic.com\" target=\"_blank\">Coin Republic<\/a> in an email.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2013\/12\/23\/singapore-government-bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terence Lee for Tech in Asia The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the country\u2019s central bank, has decided not to intervene on whether businesses can accept Bitcoin as a means of transacting goods and services. \u201cWhether or not businesses accept bitcoins in exchange for their goods and services is a commercial decision in which MAS [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,43,39,5,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-business","category-economics","category-geopolitics","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9578","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=9578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47339,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9578\/revisions\/47339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}