$300M in Bitcoin Flow to Binance From Huobi as China Gets Tougher on Exchanges
The Chinese government cracks down on the crypto exchanges (again), but Binance has been benefiting.
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Chinese journalist Colin Wu speculated that the move from the crypto exchange would likely drive users to Binance for higher leveraged trades. Huobi, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, has reportedly restricted derivatives for new and existing users over concerns about China’s regulatory crackdowns.Chinese journalist Colin Wu reported on Twitter Thursday that Huobi had temporarily dropped the maximum allowable trading leverage from 125x to less than 5x for existing users. In addition, new users based in China were not allowed to engage in derivatives trading on the....
Known as one of China's 'big three' exchanges, Beijing-based Huobi experienced a meteoric rise to the top tier of China's bitcoin industry last year, emerging as newcomer and growing to become a market leader with more than 100 employees. Since that early success, Huobi, like other China-based exchanges, has struggled to control its international perception. Huobi has had to fight off rumours it was faking trading volumes in a bid to attract users. Further, the future and stability of its business were called into question by China's central bank, which has moved broadly to discourage....
Typing in the keywords for crypto exchanges Binance, OKEx and Huobi on Chinese search engines is currently pulling up no results. China’s stance toward decentralized cryptocurrency trading appears to be getting even tougher. Chinese journalist Colin Wu and crypto news site 8BTCNews have both claimed that as of Wednesday, search results for some of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges are pulling up zero results.Cointelegraph’s staff in China have themselves searched for cryptocurrency exchanges on the search engines and confirmed that results are inaccessible. However, a compound....
Read the original Chinese article on btc38 and btckan, a prominent Chinese Bitcoin exchange and website, respectively. BTC China's CEO Bobby Lee has introduced a new method for Bitcoiners in China to "recharge" their RMB balances on Chinese Bitcoin Exchanges: BTC China vouchers. Within a week, Chinese Bitcoin Exchanges led by BTC China, have found a solution for getting RMB deposits into Chinese Bitcoin Exchanges in compliance with ever-changing interpretations of Chinese law. Alternatively, Huobi's CEO has been using his personal bank account to provide RMB liquidity for all of his....
Rui Ma is an early-stage investor in technology companies with the global accelerator program and seed fund 500 Startups. Residing in Beijing, she is an active member of China's bitcoin community. Some bitcoiners might still remember when BTC China was the dominant bitcoin exchange in China. Well, those days are long gone. These days, newer exchanges Huobi and OKcoin regularly top the charts for trading volume. Monday, for example, their 24-hour volumes are at 106,942 and 126,973 respectively, third-place CHBTC is at 35,349, while BTC China lags far behind at 4,344. Huobi, in particular,....