{"id":44367,"date":"2021-06-15T14:05:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T11:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=44367"},"modified":"2025-08-31T16:40:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T13:40:03","slug":"tunisias-finance-minister-calls-to-decriminalise-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/tunisias-finance-minister-calls-to-decriminalise-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia&#8217;s finance minister calls to decriminalise Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tunisia&#8217;s finance minister Ali Kooli said there is a need to amend the country&#8217;s legislation to &#8216;decriminalise&#8217; the holding of the first cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DocumentingBTC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DocumentingBTC<\/a><\/p>\n<p> The Minister of Economy in Tunisia says I will change the law, we cannot put a Tunisian young man in prison for buying Bitcoin<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hdsxpiYc5c\">pic.twitter.com\/hdsxpiYc5c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udde6#BITCOIN \u0627\u062d\u0645\u062f (@ahmdnet2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ahmdnet2\/status\/1403748951610757120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to him, the trigger was reports of the arrest of a 17-year-old for using digital assets.<\/p>\n<p>In May, local media reported that Tunisian authorities allegedly accused a young man of money laundering. The incident provoked outrage in the cryptocurrency community \u2014 some participants expressed dissatisfaction with the lack of regulatory clarity in the industry.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Founder of DFI Blockchain Mr Boufares Opinion about last days event\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nkEM_i50tsk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In 2018 the cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb disabled user accounts from Tunisia and 10 other countries to comply with anti-money-laundering laws.<\/p>\n<p>Two years later LocalBitcoins imposed similar restrictions on residents of the African country. The measures were explained by EU requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier attempts to regulate the industry were undertaken by Nigeria. In September, authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nigerian-regulator-classifies-crypto-assets-as-securities\">classified<\/a> cryptocurrencies as securities, and in February 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nigeria-bans-banks-from-servicing-bitcoin-exchanges\">ordered<\/a> commercial financial institutions to close the accounts of companies working with cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>In late March the central bank clarified that <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nigerias-central-bank-clarifies-its-position-on-cryptocurrencies\">did not prohibit local residents from buying and selling Bitcoin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunisia&#8217;s finance minister Ali Kooli said there is a need to amend the country&#8217;s legislation to &#8216;decriminalise&#8217; the holding of the first cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-44367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-regulation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"46","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44368,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44367\/revisions\/44368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}