China's investment in overseas bitcoin
the notice defines the nature of bitcoin, and holds that bitcoin is not issued by the monetary authority, has no monetary attributes such as legal compensation and compulsion, and is not a real currency. In terms of nature, bitcoin is a specific virtual commodity, which does not have the same legal status as currency and cannot and should not be used as currency in the market. However, bitcoin trading as a commodity trading behavior on the Internet, ordinary people have the freedom to participate at their own risk
the notice requires that at this stage, all financial institutions and Payment institutions shall not price procts or services with bitcoin, buy or sell bitcoin as a central counterparties, underwrite insurance business related to bitcoin or include bitcoin into the scope of insurance liability, and provide other bitcoin related services to customers directly or indirectly, Including: providing bitcoin registration, trading, clearing, settlement and other services for customers; Accept bitcoin or use bitcoin as a payment and settlement tool; Carry out bitcoin and RMB and foreign currency exchange services; Carry out bitcoin storage, custody, mortgage and other services; Issuing financial procts related to bitcoin; Take bitcoin as the investment target of trust, fund, etc
according to the notice, the bitcoin Internet website, as the main trading platform of bitcoin, shall be filed with the telecommunications administration according to the provisions of the Telecommunications Regulations of the people's Republic of China and the measures for the administration of Internet information services. At the same time, in view of bitcoin's high risk of money laundering and being used by criminals, the notice requires relevant institutions to perform the legal anti money laundering obligations such as customer identification and suspicious transaction report in accordance with the anti money laundering law of the people's Republic of China, so as to effectively prevent the money laundering risks related to bitcoin
in order to avoid excessive speculation of virtual commodities such as bitcoin in the name of "virtual currency" and damage the public interest and the legal tender status of RMB, the circular requires financial institutions and Payment institutions to correctly use the concept of currency in their daily work, pay attention to strengthening the ecation of the public's knowledge of currency, and correctly understand the concept of currency The concept of correctly treating virtual commodity and virtual currency, rational investment, reasonable control of investment risk, and maintenance of their own property security should be included in the content of financial knowledge popularization activities, so as to guide the public to establish a correct concept of currency and investment
in the future, the people's Bank of China will continue to pay close attention to the trend and related risks of bitcoin based on its own responsibilities End)
bitcoin home has an interpretation.
Analysis of foreign bitcoin mentioning China:
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domestic exchanges are unable to withdraw bitcoin at present, so they need to have bitcoin outside the domestic exchanges, and then register an account in the foreign exchanges that support withdrawal of corresponding legal currency, they will get a bitcoin Wallet allocated by the exchanges, and then recharge the bitcoin
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the most important thing is to need a corresponding foreign bank account to withdraw legal money. If the person is not abroad, it is more difficult, or it is easier to have trusted relatives and friends abroad to help. In fact, this is a channel for foreign exchange exchange. Therefore, the freezing of currency withdrawal in domestic exchanges is far away. Even if it is liberalized, it will be quite troublesome. There will certainly be very strict KYC policies and limits
is different from Alipay, WeChat and other electronic payment. digital currency is a brand new digital credit currency which is different from traditional credit currency. On the morning of September 9, Zhou Xiaochuan, President of the people's Bank of China, Yi Gang, vice president of the people's Bank of China, and pan Gongsheng, vice president and director of the State Administration of foreign exchange, answered questions from Chinese and foreign journalists on issues related to "financial reform and development.". In response to a question about digital currency, President Zhou Xiaochuan said that bitcoin and other virtual currencies have not been recognized as retail payment instruments, and the central bank does not accept or recognize relevant services at present. At the same time, he also pointed out that the central bank is cooperating with the market to develop digital currency
At the same time, Zhou Xiaochuan also pointed out that digital currency may have some unpredictable effects on financial stability and monetary policy transmission. Therefore, it needs dynamic regulatory measures. Jin Yu, director of the Department of economics, School of economics, Shanghai University of Finance and economics, once commented that "virtual currency" may not only hide the grey transaction or even the black transaction, but also cause all kinds of risks, "crowd out" the real financial innovation, which is not concive to the sustainable and healthy development of Internet financedon't tell me that you bought bitcoin in MTG