{"id":19629,"date":"2025-08-04T11:37:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T09:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/george-osborne-says-uk-has-been-left-behind-in-cryptocurrency-boom\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T11:37:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T09:37:30","slug":"george-osborne-says-uk-has-been-left-behind-in-cryptocurrency-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/george-osborne-says-uk-has-been-left-behind-in-cryptocurrency-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"George Osborne says UK has been left behind in cryptocurrency boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-chancellor criticises hesitant approach to crypto and warns country in danger of missing next surge in market<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2025\/aug\/04\/city-car-finance-scandal-ruling-compensation-scheme-shares-lloyds-close-bros-stock-markets-business-live\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The UK has been left behind in the cryptocurrency boom and is in danger of missing a second wave of demand, according to the former chancellor George Osborne.<\/p>\n<p>Osborne, who has an advisory role at the crypto exchange firm Coinbase, said the country already missed out on the first generation of crypto because the formerly sceptical US had embraced digital currencies under Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/aug\/04\/george-osborne-uk-cryptocurrency-boom-left-behind\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/98afd831e415255189f0e461d7798a5675950e13\/417_0_3775_3020\/master\/3775.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=256f3f0ae41fa26491a63df60f4e6c75\" title=\"George Osborne says UK has been left behind in cryptocurrency boom\" \/>Ex-chancellor criticises hesitant approach to crypto and warns country in danger of missing next surge in market<br \/>\nBusiness live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nThe UK has been left behind in the cryptocurrency boom and is in danger of missing a second wave of demand, according to the former chancellor George Osborne.<br \/>\nOsborne, who has an advisory role at the crypto exchange firm Coinbase, said the country already missed out on the first generation of crypto because the formerly sceptical US had embraced digital currencies under Donald Trump. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-chancellor criticises hesitant approach to crypto and warns country in danger of missing next surge in market Business live \u2013 latest updates The UK has been left behind in the cryptocurrency boom and is in danger of missing a second wave of demand, according to the former chancellor George Osborne. Osborne, who has an advisory &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/george-osborne-says-uk-has-been-left-behind-in-cryptocurrency-boom\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">George Osborne says UK has been left behind in cryptocurrency boom<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19629"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}