{"id":218342,"date":"2025-12-28T10:58:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T08:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-parliament-passes-law-to-legalize-cryptocurrency-use\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T10:58:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T08:58:59","slug":"ghanas-parliament-passes-law-to-legalize-cryptocurrency-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-parliament-passes-law-to-legalize-cryptocurrency-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s Parliament Passes Law to Legalize Cryptocurrency Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Ghana&#8217;s parliament has approved legislation legalizing cryptocurrency trading, ending years of uncertainty and giving the central bank formal oversight of a market already used by millions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">The Virtual Asset Service Providers Bill establishes a licensing and supervisory framework for crypto platforms, according to Bank of Ghana Governor Johnson Asiama. He announced the decision on December 19 in Accra, saying digital asset trading is now lawful nationwide and users will no longer face arrest for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512270006.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana&#8217;s parliament has approved legislation legalizing cryptocurrency trading, ending years of uncertainty and giving the central bank formal oversight of a market already used by millions. The Virtual Asset Service Providers Bill establishes a licensing and supervisory framework for crypto platforms, according to Bank of Ghana Governor Johnson Asiama. He announced the decision on December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,21382,4509,8226,7077,14695,257,2412,9871,254],"class_list":["post-218342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-law","tag-legalize","tag-news","tag-parliament","tag-passes","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}