{"id":50397,"date":"2021-09-29T18:47:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T15:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=50397"},"modified":"2025-09-02T17:47:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:47:33","slug":"uzbekistan-residents-urged-not-to-use-unofficial-bitcoin-exchanges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/uzbekistan-residents-urged-not-to-use-unofficial-bitcoin-exchanges\/","title":{"rendered":"Uzbekistan Residents Urged Not to Use &#8216;Unofficial&#8217; Bitcoin Exchanges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Agency for Project Management (NAPU) under the President of Uzbekistan <a href=\"https:\/\/napm.uz\/ru\/press_center\/news\/informatsionnoe-soobshchenie-natsionalnogo-agentstva-proektnoj-upravleniya-pri-prezidente-respublik\/\">announced<\/a> the activation of work by \u201cunofficial\u201d platforms for trading and exchanging cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cSuch platforms offer citizens the ability to exchange, sell, or acquire crypto assets, and they often request personal data, but they do not have server capacity on the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan and their addresses are registered in other countries,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As examples of such platforms, NAPU cited the sites WebmoneyTashkent.com, wmztashkent.com, wm-torg.com, uzwmz.com, blockchainuz.com and bitcointashkent.com.<\/p>\n<p>The agency noted that such platforms do not bear legal responsibility for cryptocurrency transactions and do not guarantee the legality of deals, as well as the confidentiality of personal data.<\/p>\n<p>NAPU urged not to use the services of such platforms and stressed that activity in Uzbekistan&#8217;s cryptocurrency market is subject to licensing.<\/p>\n<p>ForkLog explained to NAPU that official platforms are those that have obtained the relevant permit and operate in accordance with Uzbekistan&#8217;s legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2019, residents of the country have been prohibited from buying crypto assets and using them as a means of payment.<\/p>\n<p>In April, NAPU <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/uzbekistan-proposes-allowing-residents-to-buy-cryptocurrencies-on-exchanges\">proposed<\/a> allowing residents of Uzbekistan to acquire cryptocurrencies on an exchange, but this option has not yet been implemented.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Agency for Project Management (NAPU) under the President of Uzbekistan announced the activation of unofficial platforms for trading and exchanging cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50398,"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":[1257,1206],"class_list":["post-50397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-currency-exchanges","tag-uzbekistan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50397","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=50397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50399,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50397\/revisions\/50399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}