{"id":612800,"date":"2026-06-11T18:20:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T18:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=822124"},"modified":"2026-06-11T18:20:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T18:20:32","slug":"report-hungary-drops-criminal-penalties-for-crypto-after-orbans-16-year-rule-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/report-hungary-drops-criminal-penalties-for-crypto-after-orbans-16-year-rule-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Hungary Drops Criminal Penalties for Crypto After Orban\u2019s 16-Year Rule Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/report-hungary-drops-criminal-penalties-for-crypto-after-orbans-16-year-rule-ends_nwmk-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Scenic view of the iconic Hungarian Parliament Building along the Danube River in Budapest.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Hungary\u2019s new government revealed this week that it will fully decriminalize cryptocurrency trading and dismantle the punitive regulatory framework imposed under former Prime Minister Viktor Orban, removing jail sentences of up to eight years for ordinary users and providers, according to Bloomberg. A Sharp Reversal After One Election The Bloomberg report follows the April 12, [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungary\u2019s new government revealed this week that it will fully decriminalize cryptocurrency trading and dismantle the punitive regulatory framework imposed under former Prime Minister Viktor Orban, removing jail sentences of up to eight years for ordinary users and providers, according to Bloomberg. A Sharp Reversal After One Election The Bloomberg report follows the April 12, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":612801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-612800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}