{"id":6653,"date":"2021-06-10T09:26:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T13:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6653"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:58:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:58:18","slug":"senator-warren-calls-for-more-crypto-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/senator-warren-calls-for-more-crypto-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Warren Calls For More Crypto Regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has called on U.S. lawmakers to address the prevalent problems associated with the country&#8217;s increasing use of cryptocurrencies, as the country has failed to deliver on its promise to improve the economic lives of Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, she opted for a digital dollar, which she believes could help boost poorer Americans and streamline payment systems, if properly designed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said: &#8220;Cryptocurrency has created opportunities to scam investors, assist criminals, and worsen the climate crisis. The threats posted by crypto show that Congress and federal regulators can&#8217;t continue to hide out, hoping that crypto will go away. It won&#8217;t. It&#8217;s time to confront these issues head-on.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/warren-us-government-needs-confront-crypto-threats-head-on-2021-06-09\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Warren addresses the problem associated with the country&#8217;s increasing use of cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todays-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6653"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6678,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653\/revisions\/6678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}