Crypto in China

China Construction Bank – one of the largest financial institutions in the country – is unveiling its new funding plan that will potentially allow the firm to raise more than $3 billion from bond sales. What’s the big clincher? People will be able to purchase these bonds with bitcoin and other forms of crypto.China Bank Sees Bitcoin as a Potential ToolChina has had a very odd relationship with bitcoin and its altcoin cousins. On the one hand, bitcoin has potentially surged so much because the...

The ongoing assault on money laundering in the Chinese telecoms and crypto industry has seen Bitcoin miners facing difficulties in paying electricity bills as banks freeze cards associated with cryptocurrency transactions. Three-quarter of Chinese Bitcoin Miners Can’t Pay for Electricity According to a local news outlet, in a tweet thread on November 16, 2020, Chinese miners were reportedly experiencing difficulties in paying electricity bills. The outlet was able to survey...

Bitcoin is up by a total of around 5% this week. However, the most interesting part is that it finally broke above the coveted $16,000 mark for the first time since January 2018. This time, however, things are looking a lot more stable. BTC had a few attempts at $16,000 and managed to convincingly break through today. Ironically, it’s Friday the 13th so there goes the myth of bad things happening on this date. At the time of this writing, the price is trading at above $16,200...

China is proving itself to be a hard nut to crack when it comes to crypto. The country is on the verge of releasing its new digital yuan to the public, and already the nation wants to make sure it doesn’t have any competition to worry about. Thus, it is cracking down on all cryptocurrency exchanges, and it appears another one doing business in China has just shut its doors permanently.China Has Shut Down Another Trading FirmToken Better is a prolific cryptocurrency trading platform based in...

One of China’s biggest banks is selling $3 billion worth of bonds to investors. The offering allows clients to make purchases with cash and Bitcoin.  Raising $3 billion From A Bonds Sale China Construction Bank Corp. aims to raise up to $3 billion from a planned sale of bonds. As per a recent news report, the offering is a mutual partnership with Hong Kong-based fintech company Fusang. The project will focus on both individuals and institutions, which can trade in and out of...

Bitcoin, after a massive rise to last year’s high, trimmed gains in a sudden selloff yesterday. YouTube-based BTC commentator Carl Martin a.k.a The Moon, opined that the cryptocurrency is experiencing selloff from miners. But is that actually true? Is bitcoin dipping because of miner capitulation? Nope, there’s no tangible proof to corroborate the same. Carl ‘The Moon’ Martin Thinks That Bitcoin Miners Are Capitulating In a tweet, Carl Martin, who also goes by the name of...

The Bitcoin network just went through the second-largest negative difficulty adjustment and its most significant one since the start of the ASIC era. The 16.05% decline exceeded previous expectations indicating a readjustment of somewhere between 7% and 10%. Record-Setting BTC Mining Difficulty Adjustment The mining difficulty on the Bitcoin network goes through an automatic adjustment every 2,016 blocks. It’s a feature enabling the system to self-sustain in relation to...

Multinational technological giant Huawei announced today that its newly-launched smartphone has a built-in wallet that will allow users to store, send, and receive China’s national digital currency. Announcing the features of the Mate40 series in a Weibo post, the company said that the device is the first smartphone that supports the digital yuan via a hardware wallet. The Chinese giant said in the post that users would enjoy hardware-level security while being able to...

Yesterday, the Bitcoin network witnessed approximately 22 exahashes per second (EH/s) exit the ecosystem, as noted by Hashr8’s Thomas Heller on Twitter. The self-professed “mining maximalist” also shared his estimation that we’ll see the BTC mining difficulty decline somewhere between 7.4% to 8.8% by the end of the week — a drop that, if true, would be the worst negative difficulty adjustment since the infamous, COVID-19-induced “Black Thursday” crash in March. However, none...

Founder and former executive chairman of the multinational technology conglomerate Alibaba Group, Jack Ma, believes that world regulators need to improve the legislation around digital currencies as they could create value. Ma: Digital Currencies Could Create Value In a recent speech reported by Bloomberg, the Chinese billionaire criticized the current global financial regulatory framework for its lack of innovation. He claimed that watchdogs are primarily focused on risk...