{"id":619003,"date":"2026-06-24T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=825695"},"modified":"2026-06-24T07:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:30:11","slug":"brazil-can-now-freeze-illegal-betting-operators-funds-not-just-block-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/brazil-can-now-freeze-illegal-betting-operators-funds-not-just-block-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil Can Now Freeze Illegal Betting Operators\u2019 Funds, Not Just Block Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/brazil-can-now-freeze-illegal-betting-operators-funds-not-just-block-sites-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Brazil Can Now Freeze Illegal Betting Operators&#039; Funds, Not Just Block Sites\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>A decree signed by President Lula on June 19 lets Brazil\u2019s gambling regulator order banks to freeze the accounts of unlicensed betting operators within 24 hours \u2013 and, after due process, seize the money for an anti-crime fund \u2013 shifting enforcement from blocking websites to choking the financial rails beneath them. From web blocks to [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decree signed by President Lula on June 19 lets Brazil\u2019s gambling regulator order banks to freeze the accounts of unlicensed betting operators within 24 hours \u2013 and, after due process, seize the money for an anti-crime fund \u2013 shifting enforcement from blocking websites to choking the financial rails beneath them. From web blocks to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":619004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-619003","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\/619003","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=619003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}