{"id":32873,"date":"2021-06-07T14:51:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T05:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/07\/china-blocks-cryptocurrency-weibo-accounts-in-judgment-day-for-bitcoin"},"modified":"2021-06-07T14:51:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T05:51:08","slug":"china-blocks-cryptocurrency-weibo-accounts-in-judgment-day-for-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32873","title":{"rendered":"China blocks cryptocurrency Weibo accounts in \u2018judgment day\u2019 for bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several popular accounts on Twitter-like service are closed down, displaying message saying account \u2018violates laws and rules\u2019<\/p>\n<p>China has stepped up its crackdown on bitcoin trading and mining, blocking a slew of cryptocurrency-related accounts on the Twitter-like Weibo platform over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>More actions are expected, including linking illegal crypto activities in China more directly with the country\u2019s criminal law, according to analysts and a financial regulator.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/07\/china-blocks-cryptocurrency-weibo-accounts-in-judgment-day-for-bitcoin\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several popular accounts on Twitter-like service are closed down, displaying message saying account \u2018violates laws and rules\u2019China has stepped up its crackdown on bitcoin trading and mining, blocking a slew of cryptocurrency-related accounts on the Twi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,310,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-cryptocurrencies","category-technology"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32874,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32873\/revisions\/32874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}