{"id":83460,"date":"2025-06-05T09:01:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=83460"},"modified":"2025-06-05T09:01:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:01:47","slug":"warning-europe-might-irrevocably-make-bitcoin-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=83460","title":{"rendered":"Warning: Europe Might Irrevocably Make Bitcoin Illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/shutterstock_2196999727-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Warning: Europe Might Irrevocably Make Bitcoin Illegal\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/shutterstock_2196999727-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/shutterstock_2196999727-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/shutterstock_2196999727-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/shutterstock_2196999727-190x107.jpg 190w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/shutterstock_2196999727-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/shutterstock_2196999727-760x428.jpg 760w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/shutterstock_2196999727.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">Paymium\u2019s Alexandre Stachtchenko explained that if the current version of the EDPB\u2019s guidelines on processing personal data through blockchain technologies is approved, bitcoin might become illegal in Europe. This is because the proposed ruleset identifies public keys as personal data. EDPB Guidelines Might Make Bitcoin Illegal in Europe Bitcoin\u2019s operability in Europe is under attack. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paymium\u2019s Alexandre Stachtchenko explained that if the current version of the EDPB\u2019s guidelines on processing personal data through blockchain technologies is approved, bitcoin might become illegal in Europe. This is because the proposed ruleset identifies public keys as personal data. EDPB Guidelines Might Make Bitcoin Illegal in Europe Bitcoin\u2019s operability in Europe is under attack. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}