China Balks at Whack-a-Mole Capital Controls on Macau
Chinese gamblers and stock traders are nursing their wounds after Macau authorities reversed a decision to limit their daily withdrawals to 5,000 patacas ($626). Macau Investors Easily Spooked. The original announcement sent shares in casinos tumbling, Reuters reports, with seasoned gamers also looking at their incomes being strangled. Macau, which generates around 40% of GDP from the gambling industry, will nonetheless keep a new ATM transaction limit of 5,000 patacas. The proposed limits would affect only China UnionPay account holders, it appears, with authorities pointing to a desire....
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Chinese residents who value their financial freedom need to consider obtaining Bitcoin. China’s capital controls are slowly getting out of hand as of late. A new move will see UnionPay bank card holders withdrawal limits cut in half. This is another move to fight the Macau gaming industry, which is often seen as a “safe’ way to avoid capital control. All of this will highlight the value and viability of Bitcoin even further. With multiple billions of yuan flowing out of the Chinese economy every year, stemming the tide is of the utmost importance. Doing so is not an easy feat by any means,....
If the U.S. attempted to ban bitcoin, an endless digital game of whack-a-mole would ensue.
Macau, one of China’s special administrative regions, recently concluded discussing a bill that seeks to make digital currencies legal tender, a report has said. The report also suggested that individuals who reject or refuse to accept legal tender will be fined between $123 and $1,230.
Improving Macau’s Legal System
An executive council of Macau, an autonomous region on China’s south coast, recently completed discussing the draft bill proposing to include digital forms of currency in its basket of financial instruments that are accepted as legal tender. As....
Macau's casino junket operators have already been on the rocks during the coronavirus pandemic, and some fear that they could be “faded out” following the introduction of a fully traceable digital yuan. Beijing's bid to better control money laundering and illicit transactions through a fully-traceable central bank digital currency could pose a threat to the country's popular gambling hub Macau. A hotspot for tourists — of which 70% come from mainland China — the region's gambling business could reportedly be adversely impacted by China's use of a digital yuan to clamp down on illegal money....
The price of bitcoin continues to rise, led primarily by the exchanges in China, which have, oftentimes, been trading at a premium of $10/BTC higher than the other major exchanges around the world. With China driving such an increase in the bitcoin price, many have been speculating that it could be driven by capital controls. In China, the law stipulates that individuals cannot send more than the equivalent of $50,000 out of the country in a year. To get around this, individuals have hired smugglers to get cash out of the country, bought extremely expensive real estate in cities like New....