{"id":85465,"date":"2023-10-08T17:40:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T14:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=85465"},"modified":"2025-09-12T23:28:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:28:41","slug":"sam-altman-accuses-the-u-s-government-of-waging-war-on-cryptocurrencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/sam-altman-accuses-the-u-s-government-of-waging-war-on-cryptocurrencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman accuses the U.S. government of waging war on cryptocurrencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government is waging war on the crypto industry and trying to take Bitcoin under control. This was stated by OpenAI chief and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-worldcoin-and-how-do-you-get-wld\">Worldcoin<\/a> co-founder Sam Altman on Joe Rogan&#8217;s podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/digital-assets\/2023\/10\/07\/its-war-ceo-of-chatgpt-developer-openai-and-ai-pioneer-issues-stark-bitcoin-warning-amid-crypto-price-swings\/\">Forbes<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\n<cite>\u201cI am thrilled by Bitcoin. The idea of a world currency not under the control of any government is a supremely logical and important step in technological development,\u201d he noted.<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Altman is concerned about how far governments may go in matters of oversight. He is firmly opposed to national digital currencies (<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-central-bank-digital-currency-cbdc\">CBDC<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the current U.S. presidential race, Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/us-presidential-candidate-rfk-jr-calls-bitcoin-currency-of-freedom\">called Bitcoin \u201cthe currency of freedom\u201d<\/a> and pledged to defend the asset should he be elected president.<\/p>\n<p>The politician also <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-john-f-kennedys-nephew-criticised-the-sec-for-a-war-on-crypto\">criticized<\/a> American regulators for the \u201cwar on cryptocurrencies\u201d and spoke out <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-nephew-of-john-f-kennedy-criticises-the-idea-of-launching-a-digital-dollar\">against CBDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in September, WSJ sources <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-reports-potential-rise-in-openais-valuation-to-90-billion\">reported<\/a> that OpenAI was in talks with investors regarding a potential sale of shares and a valuation of $80-90 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government is waging war on the crypto industry and trying to take Bitcoin under control. This was stated by OpenAI chief and {{AOPEN_1}}Worldcoin{{ACLOSE_1}} co-founder Sam Altman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85466,"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":[1138,36,26],"class_list":["post-85465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-opinions","tag-regulation","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85465","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=85465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85467,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85465\/revisions\/85467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}