{"id":157064,"date":"2026-09-06T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T01:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157064"},"modified":"2026-09-06T01:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T01:00:13","slug":"why-chelsea-football-shirts-are-making-hong-kong-fans-nervous-about-crypto-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157064","title":{"rendered":"Why Chelsea football shirts are making Hong Kong fans nervous about crypto laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostEnglish Premier League football club Chelsea\u2019s lucrative new front-of-shirt sponsorship deal with a stablecoin issuer has left Hong Kong fans and retailers concerned about whether wearing or selling the top counts as illegal promotion under digital currency laws.<br \/>\nChelsea signed the deal with Circle to feature its USDC stablecoin brand on player jerseys for the 2026-27 season in late August, just three months after the UK\u2019s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) warned Premier League clubs about&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3366500\/why-chelsea-football-shirts-are-making-hong-kong-fans-nervous-about-crypto-laws?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 PostEnglish Premier League football club Chelsea\u2019s lucrative new front-of-shirt sponsorship deal with a stablecoin issuer has left Hong Kong fans and retailers concerned about&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\/157064"}],"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=157064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}