{"id":1070,"date":"2018-11-06T01:31:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T01:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2018-11-06T01:31:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T01:31:31","slug":"plans-for-digital-currency-spark-political-crisis-in-marshall-islands-world-news-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"Plans for digital currency spark political crisis in Marshall Islands | World news | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/nov\/06\/plans-for-digital-currency-spark-political-crisis-in-marshall-islands\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e130dd4cea63b320965914f2cb28e1bb2f85b028\/0_81_5760_3240\/master\/5760.jpg?width=300&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=345520cd2fc1b5cb4d30d85f5efa8033\" class=\"image-treated\" data-original=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e130dd4cea63b320965914f2cb28e1bb2f85b028\/0_81_5760_3240\/master\/5760.jpg?width=300&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=345520cd2fc1b5cb4d30d85f5efa8033\" data-treated=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e130dd4cea63b320965914f2cb28e1bb2f85b028\/0_81_5760_3240\/master\/5760.jpg?width=300&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=345520cd2fc1b5cb4d30d85f5efa8033\" \/><\/a>The only female leader in the Pacific Islands is facing a no-confidence challenge after pushing ahead with the controversial introduction of a digital currency for the Marshall Islands.In February this year President Hilda Heine announced plans to introduce a cryptocurrency to operate as the country\u2019s second legal tender alongside the US dollar, saying her country must not remain idle but \u201cadvance into the future\u201d.The cryptocurrency, known as Sovereign or \u201cSov\u201d was to be issued by an Israeli start-up company, which, according to the International Monetary Fund has \u201climited financial sector experience\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/nov\/06\/plans-for-digital-currency-spark-political-crisis-in-marshall-islands\">Plans for digital currency spark political crisis in Marshall Islands | World news | The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only female leader in the Pacific Islands is facing a no-confidence challenge after pushing ahead with the controversial introduction of a digital currency for the Marshall Islands.In February this year President Hilda Heine announced plans to introduce a cryptocurrency to operate as the country\u2019s second legal tender alongside the US dollar, saying her country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,22,44,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}