{"id":150216,"date":"2026-04-23T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150216"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:00:09","slug":"chinese-economist-fu-peng-joins-hong-kong-listed-bitfire-hails-cryptos-historic-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150216","title":{"rendered":"Chinese economist Fu Peng joins Hong Kong-listed Bitfire, hails crypto\u2019s historic rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese economist Fu Peng, whose candid remarks about the country\u2019s economic ills went viral, has joined a Hong Kong cryptocurrency firm as chief scientist, hailing the \u201chistorical\u201d leap of digital assets into mainstream finance despite their current slump.<br \/>\n\u201c[Digital assets] have become mature enough to be added to investment portfolios,\u201d Fu said in Hong Kong on Thursday, addressing audience members at an event organised by his new employer Bitfire Group, a Hong Kong-listed crypto asset&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/article\/3351160\/chinese-economist-fu-peng-joins-hong-kong-listed-bitfire-hails-cryptos-historic-rise?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese economist Fu Peng, whose candid remarks about the country\u2019s economic ills went viral, has joined a Hong Kong cryptocurrency firm as chief scientist,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150216"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}