Global Bitcoin Summit Comes to China

Global Bitcoin Summit Comes to China

While China has been making the Bitcoin headlines for all the wrong reasons lately, the Global Bitcoin Summit (GBS) 2014 in Beijing should help to reverse investor fears. China has been a vital part of the Bitcoin world since the digital currency’s inception. Recently though news about Bitcoin in China has been hovering around the recent crackdown of by the People’s Bank of China, although a few silver linings poke through every once in a while. This weekend, a lot of these situations and more will be addressed at the Global Bitcoin Summit 2014 (GBS) in Beijing. The summit appears as the....


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