{"id":3106,"date":"2014-10-21T00:17:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T04:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=3106"},"modified":"2014-10-21T00:19:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T04:19:45","slug":"stand-up-for-bitcoin-anonymity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/21\/stand-up-for-bitcoin-anonymity\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand up for Bitcoin anonymity Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>The state of New York has proposed forcing any corporation that deals with cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, to record the name and address of everyone who pays or receives payment using a cryptocurrency. \u00a0Corporations would need to retain this information for ten years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>These regulations\u00a0infringe on the privacy rights of both Bitcoin businesses and users. \u00a0They will\u00a0create expensive and vague new obligations for startups that use\u00a0cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t too late to stop this proposal, but the public comment period ends today.<\/p>\n<p>Please email<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"mailto:dana.syracuse@dfs.ny.gov\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #1155cc;\">dana.syracuse@dfs.ny.gov<\/a>\u00a0with your opposition (<a href=\"https:\/\/cdt.org\/blog\/nys-bitregs-a-threat-to-privacy-and-innovation\/\">here are some talking points<\/a>) or <a href=\"https:\/\/act.eff.org\/action\/stop-the-bitlicense\">fill out this form provided by the EFF<\/a>\u00a0and tell them that you oppose their BitLicense regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of New York has proposed forcing any corporation that deals with cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, to record the name and address&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-privacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bitcoin1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-O6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3109,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions\/3109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}