{"id":1113,"date":"2017-09-26T12:41:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T12:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2017-09-28T16:20:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T16:20:48","slug":"news-sec-targets-cryptos-cbs-site-mines-monero-slapdash-crypto-hedge-funds-singapore-pulls-bank-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/09\/26\/news-sec-targets-cryptos-cbs-site-mines-monero-slapdash-crypto-hedge-funds-singapore-pulls-bank-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"News: SEC targets cryptos, CBS site mines Monero, slapdash crypto &#8220;hedge funds,&#8221; Singapore pulls bank accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/09\/01\/the-sec-told-you-it-was-watching-now-its-calling-ico-promoters-protostarr-benjacoin\/\">The SEC<\/a> embraces cryptos! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/news\/press-release\/2017-176\">&#8220;Cyber Unit&#8221; formed<\/a> to protect retail investors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Monero goes mainstream! The CBS Showtime website is busted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2017\/09\/25\/showtime_hit_with_coinmining_script\/\">running a JavaScript miner<\/a>, registered to a personal email address.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Many of the new cryptocurrency funds that have sprung up call themselves hedge funds, but few have the infrastructure or level of experience to qualify as such, neither have they attracted many sophisticated institutional investors or shown signs they are doing much to hedge their long positions.&#8221; You&#8217;d almost think Bitcoin was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/98031696-9e67-11e7-8cd4-932067fbf946\">amateur hour all the way down<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/abQSC\">archive<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Singapore crypto firms are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-09-26\/singapore-cryptocurrency-firms-facing-bank-account-closures\">liberated<\/a> from their entanglement in the legacy banking system! Courtesy anti-money laundering rules and know-your-customer requirements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is actually <i>good<\/i> news for Bitcoin, because,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[116,6,96,33,117],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-cbs","tag-links","tag-monero","tag-sec","tag-singapore"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}