Crypto in China

Bitcoin is currently facing the strongest selling pressure since February. Commentators and analysts think that there is a possibility that it might drop below the recent lows near $7,750. On October 16, BTC price fell below $8,000 in fresh choppy trading after several days of consolidation and slow grind.The top cryptocurrency by market value dropped from $8,326 to $8,086 in an hour to 17:00 UTC on October 15. That confirmed a downside move in the recent trading range of $8,450–$8,250 as...

As China continues its long fight against bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, a new step has been taken. Alipay, owned by Alibaba, has announced on Twitter that it will be discontinuing all BTC and crypto payments from here on out.Alipay: No Crypto Use, PleaseThere has been serious confusion as of late given that Binance, the largest and most popular cryptocurrency exchange by market cap, has allegedly joined hands with Alipay. When a Twitter user asked if Binance was allowing fiat-to-crypto...

The eyes of the world are currently on the United States and China, as the trade deal negotiations between the two economic powerhouses are taking new turns. Over the last two years, both countries have shown restraint in coming to a mutual consensus. However, there was a renewed optimism in the market after last Friday’s positive results in the trade talks.After the U.S. suspended its next tariff increase on Chinese imports, the U.S. stock market saw a major rally on Friday. The Dow Jones...

Ripple CEO, Garlinghouse, has sounded an alarm geared at calling the United States government to action, reiterating that China’s goal with the CBDC is to destabilize the US dollar. The CEO urged the government of the United States during an interview with Fox Business to be at the forefront of the crypto revolution, instead of China.Garlinghouse talked about the tech boom back in the early 2000s and how the US took control of the industry and benefited immensely from that...

As tensions continue to flare between the U.S. and China amid further trade war competitiveness, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has pitted the two superpowers against each other yet again, suggesting that America is falling behind China on crypto innovation. A ‘Call to Action’ China’s work on its central bank digital currency (CBDC) has stepped up in recent months. The project, which has been in production since 2014, is inching ever closer to realization, and it has some critics concerned...

According to Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, investors in China can now purchase cryptocurrencies like bitcoin using local payment processors like AliPay and WeChant through Binance. The confirmation of AliPay and WeChat integration by Zhao comes a month after the announcement of Yi He, the co-founder of Binance, of a fiat-to-crypto over-the-counter trading platform launch in China. The addition of AliPay and WeChat options comes in conjunction with the launch of Binance’s P2P trading...

Anybody who knows anything about the U.S. Stock Market is already familiar with FAANG. An acronym for the five biggest, most popular and impressive tech stocks with significant performance, FAANG stocks have been trailblazers for more than a few years now.They’ve been so certain that people have largely formed a habit of buying into any of the five companies – Facebook (FB), Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Netflix (NFLX) and Google’s (GOOGL) parent company, Alphabet – as a completely sure way of...

The U.S. and China are all set to engage in discussion this Thursday, October 10, over the year-long trade dispute between the economic giants. The world is observing these events closely as they will set the tone for the future global economic scenario.While the Trump administration has set some demands and policy changes, China has shown a strong reluctance to it. According to the latest Bloomberg report, China has narrowed down the scope for the upcoming discussions. Beijing officials have...

There’s no denying that bitcoin has great promise. Since it first emerged on the financial plane roughly ten years ago, the currency has come a long way and is changing the world of monetary trading as we know it.Bitcoin and Its Carbon EmissionsUnfortunately, not everyone is convinced that it has something to offer. One of the big problems with bitcoin that continually gets in the way is its carbon footprint, which according to some analysts is bigger than one might expect. In the past, it’s...

Amid the escalating chaos of the anti-government protests in Hong Kong, bitcoin’s trading volume has hit an all-time high on peer to peer exchange, LocalBitcoins. Residents of Hong Kong are still staggering from what was an exceptionally violent week of protests. The outrage over the now- withdrawn extradition bill has boiled over into issues such as income disparity, and democratic prerogative. Yesterday, the protests reached a fever pitch, as police switched rubber bottles in exchange for...