{"id":35112,"date":"2018-01-31T11:39:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T10:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=35112"},"modified":"2018-02-07T20:07:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T19:07:46","slug":"bitcoin-may-not-be-digital-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/bitcoin-may-not-be-digital-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin May Not Be Digital Gold&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A two-day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cryptonia.co\/?tag=basel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">workshop<\/a> involving over sixty financial investigators in Basel, Switzerland has seen Europol and Interpol agree upon a range of measures designed to ramp up efforts to combat the use of cryptocurrencies for money laundering and terrorist financing purposes. The event saw attendance from over 60 international financial investigators.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cryptofinanceco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Crypto Finance Conference 2018 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The price of a Bitcoin, which first surpassed the gold price nearly a year ago, is now worth more than seven times the value of an ounce of the metal (currently priced at $1,338). That\u2019s after the Bitcoin price has tumbled recently to its current value around $10,000, half what it was worth at its all-time high last month.<\/p>\n<p>Terrorists Are Increasingly Interested Bitcoin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenddemocracy.org\/media-hit\/yaya-j-fanusie-terrorists-are-increasingly-interested-bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defenddemocracy.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/terrorists-are-increasingly-interested-bitcoin-2631713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/chinese-bitcoin-buyers-getting-around-government-ban-163836019.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How Chinese bitcoin buyers are getting around the government ban<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-35113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Bitcoin.jpg\" alt=\"\" height=\"483\" width=\"725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Bitcoin.jpg 725w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Bitcoin-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Bitcoin-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two-day workshop involving over sixty financial investigators in Basel, Switzerland has seen Europol and Interpol agree upon a range of measures designed to ramp up efforts to combat the use of cryptocurrencies for money laundering and terrorist financing purposes. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/bitcoin-may-not-be-digital-gold\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35112"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35139,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35112\/revisions\/35139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}