{"id":345780,"date":"2018-01-28T15:48:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T14:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/were-very-seriously-considering-action-on-bitcoin\/"},"modified":"2018-01-28T15:48:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T14:48:33","slug":"were-very-seriously-considering-action-on-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/were-very-seriously-considering-action-on-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re \u201cVery Seriously\u201d Considering Action On Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-01-25\/theresa-may-were-very-seriously-considering-action-bitcoin\"><strong>Zero Hedge<\/strong><\/a><br \/>January 26, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>After the first round of Brexit talks coming to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-12-04\/watch-live-may-and-juncker-make-joint-statement\">an unexpectedly smooth<\/a> conclusion, Theresa May entered the new year grappling with members of her own party \u2013 notably Boris Johnson, her own foreign secretary \u2013 over a brewing crisis at the NHS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, in what we imagine was a badly needed getaway, May seized the opportunity for a star-making appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, where she delivered a speech and met with President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Famously a Luddite, May surprised observers by focusing on the positive advances in Artificial Intelligence and its possible benefits, while touting the UK\u2019s status as a leading innovator (behind China and the US, of course).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"fitvid957618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0VgxpqvBG5M\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of flying cars and the ability to prevent pandemics, May painted a picture where many of our modern problems are ameliorated by technology.<\/p>\n<p>But she also acknowleged that \u201cas we seize these opportunities of technology so we also shape this change to ensure it works for everyone, be that in people\u2019s jobs or their daily lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>May said \u201cwe need to act decisively to help people benefit from global growth now\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI was appalled by the reports that I read. What worries me<\/strong> <strong>is it\u2019s not just about that event it\u2019s about this wider issue<\/strong> in society about the progress of women\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026I\u2019m going to continue to work to ensure that we can get to a point where women are truly accepted and respected as equals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Later, while responding to a question about regulating bitcoin, May promised to consider clamping down on bitcoin as she raised concerns that cryptocurrencies are being used by criminals, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-01-25\/u-k-s-may-will-look-very-seriously-at-action-on-bitcoin\">Bloomberg<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIn areas like cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, we should be looking at these very seriously,\u201d May said in a television interview in Davos with Bloomberg\u2019s Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait. <strong>Action on crypto-currencies may be needed&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/theresa-may-were-very-seriously-considering-action-on-bitcoin.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zero HedgeJanuary 26, 2018 After the first round of Brexit talks coming to an unexpectedly smooth conclusion, Theresa May entered the new year grappling with members of her own party \u2013 notably Boris Johnson, her own foreign secretary \u2013 over a brewing crisis at the NHS. So, in what we imagine was a badly needed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-345780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}