Wednesday marked the last day for the ubiquitous Chinese cryptocurrency exchange. The ban, which was announced in September, finally shuttered its last exchange and made it illegal for Chinese mainlanders to exchange digital money unless they operate offshore. Which is precisely where it is all heading.
Huobi, one of the top three Bitcoin trading platforms, stopped all bitcoin trading in mainland China and have moved to Singapore, Hong Kong, and South Korea. Shanghai-based BTCC stopped trading and said it will charge users a service fee to withdraw existing funds by Friday.
Bitcoin is one of the hundreds of cryptocurrencies that have become all the rage in just the last two years. A number of professional investment firms, from Hong Kong hedge funds to wealthy family offices, have been investing in these new digital securities, often created out of thin air and used to fund new start-ups. Bitcoin is the most popular. The Chinese penchant for gambling set Beijing monetary policymakers off this summer to shut down exchanges and initial coin offerings, the main funding mechanism for tech start-ups losing to raise what same say is fake capital. Regardless, hundreds of millions of dollars have been raised in the ICO market, which was also banned, and many of those Chinese investors are either buying cryptocurrencies in offshore accounts or investing directly in start-ups by purchasing the tokens they issue in those ICOs.
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Source: Forbes
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