PBOC Orders All Chinese Banks And Third Party Payment Processors To Close Accounts Of Chinese Bitcoin Exchanges by 4/15
Original Chinese article here. English article by Caixin. Caixin is a trusted Chinese financial news source. Ties to the 3/21/14 Sina.com FUD incident. In contrast to the 3/21/14 incident mentioned by OKCoin, this news was broken by Caixin not Sina. More importantly, the original article has not yet been rescinded. In the original rescinded Sina article that turned out not to be true, it was claimed that on 3/18/14 a document was released that would have banned Bitcoin transactions in China by 4/15/14. The PBOC took to Weibo to announce that: "Regarding the PBOC statement issued on 3/18....
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