{"id":237,"date":"2021-06-14T20:18:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T19:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2021-06-14T20:18:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T19:18:48","slug":"thailand-bans-non-fungible-tokens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/thailand-bans-non-fungible-tokens\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand bans Non-Fungible Tokens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*Live by the blockchain, suffer with the blockchain. \u00a0If you lie down with Dogecoins, you get up with their fleas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/thailand-bans-meme-coins-nft-113518980.html<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thailand is the latest country to impose curbs on cryptocurrency trading. The southeast Asian nation&#8217;s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.or.th\/EN\/Pages\/News_Detail.aspx?SECID=8994\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-rapid_p=\"19\" data-v9y=\"1\">implemented<\/a> a ban on meme coins like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/Dogecoin\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-rapid_p=\"20\" data-v9y=\"1\">Dogecoin<\/a>. Last week, exchanges were ordered to delist the coins, along with NFTs, utility tokens and social tokens, within 30 days.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>According to the Thai SEC, the new rules are aimed at protecting traders from tokens that have &#8220;no clear objective or substance&#8221; and whose prices are swayed by social media trends and influencers. Dogecoin, in particular, has seen its online buzz skyrocket thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/spacex-dogecoin-moon-satellite-mission-200850331.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-rapid_p=\"21\" data-v9y=\"1\">mentions<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/doge-musk-233459058.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-rapid_p=\"22\" data-v9y=\"1\">Elon Musk<\/a> (including during his stint <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/elon-musk-snl-host-dogecoin-171627334.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-rapid_p=\"23\" data-v9y=\"1\">hosting SNL<\/a>). The so-called meme coin&#8217;s price has fluctuated more recently amid crypto volatility fuelled by bans in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/chinese-financial-payment-bodies-barred-cryptocurrency-business-2021-05-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-rapid_p=\"24\" data-v9y=\"1\">China <\/a>and potential restrictions in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/uk-india-cryptocurrency-ban-idUSKBN2B60QP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-rapid_p=\"25\" data-v9y=\"1\">India<\/a>. On the flip side, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/el-salvador-bitcoin-legal-tender-120440725.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-rapid_p=\"26\" data-v9y=\"1\">El Salvador<\/a> recently became the first nation to accept Bitcoin as legal tender&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"max-player-injector\" class=\"vmmi-si\" data-maxi=\"0\">\n<div class=\"vdb_player\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"vdb_8d131b02-d401-44dd-8f1b-5303ce07d31f\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"side-view-close-button\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inner-floating-container\"><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alongside Dogecoin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/nft-explainer-digital-art-collectibles-blockchain-environment-business-investment-cryptocurrency-153023551.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-rapid_p=\"27\" data-v9y=\"1\">NFTs<\/a> (non-fungible tokens) were also all the rage earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Live by the blockchain, suffer with the blockchain. \u00a0If you lie down with Dogecoins, you get up with their fleas. &nbsp; https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/thailand-bans-meme-coins-nft-113518980.html &nbsp; Thailand is the latest country to impose curbs on cryptocurrency trading. The southeast Asian nation&#8217;s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has implemented a ban on meme coins like Dogecoin. Last week, exchanges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thailand bans Non-Fungible Tokens | Artmaker Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Thailand bans Non-Fungible Tokens | Artmaker Blog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/thailand-bans-non-fungible-tokens\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thailand bans Non-Fungible Tokens | Artmaker Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thailand bans Non-Fungible Tokens | Artmaker Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/thailand-bans-non-fungible-tokens\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Artmaker Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-14T19:18:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bruce Sterling\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/\",\"name\":\"Artmaker Blog\",\"description\":\"on Toshareproject.it - 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