Zero-Fee Bitcoin Trading Officially Ends in China; Begins in the UK
Following inspections from People’s Bank of China, the Big Three Chinese exchanges have halted margin and zero-fee cryptocurrency trading. The End of the Beginning? Bitcoin’s surge in price at the beginning of 2017 caught the attention of the Chinese government, which has been fighting tooth and nails against capital flight in the country, restricting foreign investments and gold importations. Given that an overwhelming majority of the Bitcoin trading volume comes from China, the government has now turned its eye towards the cryptocurrency industry. The warnings and subsequent inspections....
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