Closure of virtual currency exchanges in China
Prior to that, the regulatory authorities decided to close the exchanges of virtual currency in China. On September 14, regulatory rumors finally came to the ground. Just now, bitcoin China, one of China's three major virtual currency trading platforms, announced that bitcoin China would stop all trading business on September 30
according to public information, bitcoin China is the longest operating bitcoin trading platform in China, which was established on June 9, 2011. Affected by the news, bitcoin, lightcoin and Ethereum all fell sharply
On the evening of September 14, bitcoin China's official website announced that according to the spirit of the document issued on September 4, bitcoin China digital asset trading platform stopped new user registration from September 14; On September 30, the digital asset trading platform will stop all trading business
except bitcoin China, the other two platforms have not released relevant announcements yet. In response to reporters, Huo coin said that it has not received any clear documents or notices about the content of news reports. Okcoin said that the official announcement of okcoin should be taken as the standard
virtual currency has a long way to go and needs further supervision
With the popularity of bitcoin and other virtual currencies, the risk of fueling illegal economic activities is increasing. The reporter recently learned that the regulatory authorities will ban the domestic virtual currency trading platform
for ordinary consumers, investing in bitcoin is also risky. Many experts and regulators in China have repeatedly appealed that virtual currency trading platforms such as bitcoin are lack of supervision and have become tools for money laundering in illegal economic activities. At the same time, these trading platforms are vulnerable to manipulation by makers, resulting in huge price fluctuations and easy to make retail investors suffer losses. They have become channels for manipulation and ransacking of retail investors by makers and should be banned as soon as possible
"banning bitcoin trading platform is a channel for banning the massive exchange between bitcoin and legal tender, not bitcoin." A person close to the regulator said that the ban on activities related to bitcoin exchange does not affect the development of blockchain technology
the reporter learned from the China Internet Finance Association that the reminder on preventing the risks of bitcoin and other so-called "virtual currencies" released on September 13 said that in recent years, bitcoin and other so-called "virtual currencies" have carried out centralized transactions on some Internet platforms, the number of stakeholders has graally expanded, and the potential financial and social risks can not be ignored
the Internet Finance Association stressed: "there is no legal basis for the establishment of various so-called" currency "trading platforms in China." Investors participate in speculation through bitcoin and other so-called "virtual currency" trading platforms, and face the risk of price fluctuations and security risks. Recently, a large number of trading platforms have been stopped by the regulatory authorities for supporting the token issuance financing (ICO)
more virtual money will inevitably disturb the social order, and it is an inevitable trend to restrict virtual money< br />
although virtual currency trading is closed in China, the trading platform itself and virtual currency are not prohibited; Similarly, the blockchain technology itself has research value.
bitcoin is not regulatory, so it can not ensure the formal and legal transactions, and it is not concive to the healthy growth of the financial market.
but there is no problem, so it can not be determined
few investors and poor liquidity; Lack of supervision and serious manipulation.