{"id":1671,"date":"2020-06-15T23:26:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T23:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2020-06-15T23:26:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T23:26:53","slug":"500-estonian-crypto-companies-lose-permits-after-220b-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=1671","title":{"rendered":"500 Estonian Crypto Companies Lose Permits After $220B Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Estonia, one of the European Union\u2019s most crypto-friendly countries, is cracking down on hundreds of licensed crypto companies in response to a $220 billion money laundering scandal, according to Bloomberg. Estonia was among the first EU countries to license crypto companies but has been forced to clamp down after hundreds of billions of dollars of dirty money was detected in the Estonian unit of Denmark\u2019s largest lender Danske Bank A\/S. It\u2019s put the country at the center of Europe\u2019s biggest money laundering scandal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/500-estonian-crypto-companies-lose-permits-after-220b-scandal\">500 Estonian Crypto Companies Lose Permits After $220B Scandal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estonia, one of the European Union\u2019s most crypto-friendly countries, is cracking down on hundreds of licensed crypto companies in response to a $220 billion money laundering scandal, according to Bloomberg. Estonia was among the first EU countries to license crypto companies but has been forced to clamp down after hundreds of billions of dollars of [&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":[15,27,9,13,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671"}],"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=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1672,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}