The Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Landscape - Interview with Jeremy Cho from LakeBTC
Lately, Bitcoin has been gaining momentum while the trading volumes have been growing like never before. Currently, China is leading the digital currency exchange Industry by having one of the largest concentrations of cryptocurrency exchanges and where the highest bitcoin trading volumes can be found. Most of the Chinese Bitcoin exchanges have large trading volumes. Besides the high trading volumes, some of the possible motivations leading newcomers to use Chinese exchanges are the low fees and other benefits (such as referral programs that offer up to 50%) which many Chinese exchanges....
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