{"id":621356,"date":"2026-06-29T00:30:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=826915"},"modified":"2026-06-29T00:30:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:30:01","slug":"us-lawmaker-bitcoin-could-mark-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-all-authoritarian-governments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/us-lawmaker-bitcoin-could-mark-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-all-authoritarian-governments\/","title":{"rendered":"US Lawmaker: Bitcoin Could Mark the \u2018Beginning of the End\u2019 of All Authoritarian Governments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/us-congress-house-roundtable-bitcoin-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"US Lawmaker: Bitcoin Could Mark the &#039;Beginning of the End&#039; of All Authoritarian Governments\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>House lawmakers spotlighted bitcoin as a challenge to authoritarian governments after Representative William Timmons said cryptocurrency could mark the \u201cbeginning of the end\u201d of authoritarian rule. At a House roundtable, participants discussed financial repression, China\u2019s digital-currency ambitions, and U.S. leadership in digital-asset policy. House Roundtable Examines Crypto Access Under Repressive Governments A bullish view of [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House lawmakers spotlighted bitcoin as a challenge to authoritarian governments after Representative William Timmons said cryptocurrency could mark the \u201cbeginning of the end\u201d of authoritarian rule. At a House roundtable, participants discussed financial repression, China\u2019s digital-currency ambitions, and U.S. leadership in digital-asset policy. House Roundtable Examines Crypto Access Under Repressive Governments A bullish view of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":621357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-621356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621356","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=621356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}