Chinese Exchanges Curb Bitcoin Margin Trading
Last week’s warning from the PBOC to its citizens about the risk of investing in bitcoin and the following on-site investigations at China’s three largest bitcoin exchanges, OKCoin, Huobi and BTCC, spooked bitcoin investors and pushed the price down to its current trading price in the low $800s from recent highs above the $1,000 mark. Margin Trading....
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All things considered, it looks like Chinese Bitcoin exchanges are evolving in the right direction. Chinese Bitcoin exchanges have operated on the promise of not charging trading fees for quite some time now. Instead, most trading platforms made a lot of money from their margin trading opportunities. Now that most exchanges no longer offer high-value margin trading, they also see a large source of revenue disappear. It is likely a lot of these platforms will reintroduce trading fees over the coming weeks. Operating on 0% trading fees was never designed to be a long-term solution for....
As Bitcoin exchanges in China halt margin trading, zero-fee trading may also be on the chopping block as the industry awaits regulation. China Halts Margin Trading Following the inspections conducted by the People’s Bank of China, the country’s ‘Big Three’ Bitcoin exchanges BTCC, OKcoin and Huobi have stopped margin trading services. Although no official statement from the PBoC has been issued regarding the legality of the margin loan services, media reports state that the platforms’ margin trading “violated rules” and resulted in abnormal price volatility. BTCC CEO Bobby Lee reacted to....
Starting tomorrow, China’s largest bitcoin exchanges will begin charging trading fees at a flat 0.2 percent for every transaction. The changes stemming from the People’s Bank of China’s involvement in bitcoin trading activity between China’s biggest bitcoin exchanges continue. Within days of BTCC, Huobi and OKCoin formally announcing the halt of margin or leveraged trading for Chinese users, the three exchanges will now begin charging traders a flat fee of 0.2% per transaction. An announcement from BTCChina this Sunday read that charging fees for bitcoin and litecoin trading will commence....
The three biggest global bitcoin exchanges, BTCC, OKCoin and Huobi, currently under “inspection” by the Chinese authorities, have stopped margin trading. We can further confirm that OKCoin no longer offers futures trading to Chinese citizens. Non-Chinese citizens can continue to use the international version (OKCoin.com) which appears to continue providing 3x margins and up to 20x futures. We have not received any response in time for publishing, therefore cannot confirm why they have taken such move, but it is most likely in response to probable PBOC orders. The Chinese authorities met....
In the long run, suppressing volatility and speculation will be positive for the bitcoin market. Bitcoin trading volume has been plummeting across all major Chinese exchanges. That is not entirely unexpected, considering these platforms have removed most of their margin trading options. Moreover, trading fees have been reinstated across Chinese exchanges, which will heavily impact trading activities. For the time being, this has not impacted the Bitcoin price all that much, though. The one-hour trading volumes across most major Chinese bitcoin exchanges took a big hit. Earlier tonight,....