U.S. government should consider halting Facebook cryptocurrency project -lawmaker <!-- no image --> <div>The U.S. government should consider forcing Facebook Inc to freeze work on its new cryptocurrency project, a senior U.S. lawmaker said on Thursday.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=y8LwaP0gnU8:H9dxB-vnKjI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=y8LwaP0gnU8:H9dxB-vnKjI:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=y8LwaP0gnU8:H9dxB-vnKjI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=y8LwaP0gnU8:H9dxB-vnKjI:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=y8LwaP0gnU8:H9dxB-vnKjI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/UKBankingFinancial/~4/y8LwaP0gnU8" height="1" width="1" alt=""></div> Posted by Reuters