Bitcoin Breaks $835 in China, Controls 93 Percent of Trading
The price of Bitcoin surpassed the $820 mark on the afternoon of Dec. 21, spurring the interests of investors and traders around the world. Experts have laid out some of the reasons that may have led to the surge in price, including the yuan-to-Bitcoin correlation, exposure of bank corruption, increasing demonetization of cash and the restriction on physical assets. Thriving on economic and political turmoil. For the first time in over two years and ten months, Bitcoin has crossed the $800 mark. Analysts and experts have provided a variety of factors that could have acted as a catalyst for....
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Many have speculated that the recent increase in the price of bitcoin ($542 USD on Bitfinex at time of publication) can be traced to China, where Bitcoin trading has doubled on some exchanges in the last four days as Chinese investors respond to a recent currency devaluation, and look for ways to avoid the government’s stringent capital controls. China’s economy has been flatlining for some time now. That and the strengthening U.S. dollar prompted the People's Bank of China to devalue the yuan by 0.45 percent last Friday to its lowest level since February 2011. New Interest in Bitcoin.....
The world’s largest bitcoin market saw a steep fall in trading volumes on the day in which exchanges began charging trading fees at a flat 0.2 percent from midday (Beijing time). In a 1-hour trading period after bitcoin exchanges introduced trading fees, trading volume at BTC China fell over 80%. Huobi and OkCoin, the two other exchanges that were investigated and saw discussions held with the People’s Bank of China saw declines of over 90 percent and 80 percent respectively. The drop in trading volume can be attributed to the lack of automated bitcoin trading, previously making up for a....
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....
The price of Bitcoin in China went past $990 this afternoon, as Chinese investors continued to push high volumes in local exchanges. Most investors at this time of the year are hoping to evade capital controls and circumnavigate cash restrictions, as noted by Holger Zschaepitz, financial author and editor of Welt. Further yuan devaluation and tightening of capital controls. Analysts revealed that Bitcoin hit record high volumes this past week, which ultimately led to its price rally and pushed the price of Bitcoin to increase by over 20 percent. Zero Hedge suggested that Chinese investors....
China is the biggest contributor to the Bitcoin sector in many ways. We all know that majority of the hashing power is currently contributed by the Chinese mining pools; it probably has more Bitcoin mining data centers than any other country, and most of the Bitcoin ASICs are designed and fabricated in there. The Chinese contribution is not only limited to the technological infrastructure; the Chinese are also active traders, and a significant number of transactions over the Bitcoin blockchain originate from mainland China and other territories like Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc. The region also....