{"id":18984,"date":"2021-08-23T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=18984"},"modified":"2021-08-23T09:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T09:00:10","slug":"court-in-china-says-cryptocurrency-not-protected-by-law-in-ruling-that-could-set-a-precedent-for-bitcoin-lawsuits-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=18984","title":{"rendered":"Court in China says cryptocurrency \u2018not protected by law\u2019 in ruling that could set a precedent for bitcoin lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostNorthern Shandong province\u2019s high court said in public comments that \u201ccryptocurrency is not protected by law\u201d after reviewing a case involving virtual tokens, in a ruling that could set a precedent for other courts in China now that investment and trading in digital assets such as bitcoin is outlawed.In the case, the plaintiff invested 70,000 yuan (US$10,756) to buy tokens endorsed by three friends in 2017, but the accounts were closed after the People\u2019s Bank of China, the central bank,\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/policy\/article\/3146026\/court-china-says-cryptocurrency-not-protected-law-ruling-could-set?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostNorthern Shandong province\u2019s high court said in public comments that \u201ccryptocurrency is not protected by law\u201d after reviewing a case involving virtual tokens, in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18985,"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\/18984"}],"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=18984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}