{"id":23210,"date":"2022-06-21T20:44:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T20:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=23210"},"modified":"2022-06-21T20:49:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T20:49:20","slug":"foreign-policy-its-time-for-regulators-to-put-crypto-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2022\/06\/21\/foreign-policy-its-time-for-regulators-to-put-crypto-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Policy: It\u2019s Time for Regulators to Put Crypto Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my piece for Foreign Policy explaining the events of the past week \u2014 It\u2019s Time for Regulators to Put Crypto Down: A lack of rules has created fraudulent, bubble-driven markets. [<em><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2022\/06\/21\/crypto-regulation-ust-luna-celsius-collapse\/\">Foreign Policy<\/a>, paywalled<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>James Palmer wrote the headline, and I wholeheartedly approved. We considered both-sidesing it to &#8220;rein in,&#8221; but we decided you miss all the shots you don&#8217;t take. It got through.<\/p>\n<p>The headline summarises my point: crypto is trash, the regulators spent the past year asleep, and they have some questions to answer.<\/p>\n<p>I also begged that we please not use a stock photo of a gold coin with a cryptocurrency logo. At least a bitcoin ATM is a bit less bad.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also giving up capitalising the names of cryptos. Apparently it&#8217;s AP style not to. bitcoin. bitcoin. bitcoin!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2022\/06\/21\/foreign-policy-its-time-for-regulators-to-put-crypto-down\/foreign-policy-bitcoin-atm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23211\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23211\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/foreign-policy-bitcoin-atm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/foreign-policy-bitcoin-atm.jpg 680w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/foreign-policy-bitcoin-atm-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/foreign-policy-bitcoin-atm-348x215.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\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>We considered both-sidesing the headline to \u201crein in,\u201d but we decided you miss all the shots you don\u2019t take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[1150],"class_list":["post-23210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-foreign-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/foreign-policy-bitcoin-atm.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23210","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=23210"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23217,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23210\/revisions\/23217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}