Breaking: Bitcoin Exchanges Held to ‘Closed-Door’ Meeting with China’s Central Bank

Breaking: Bitcoin Exchanges Held to ‘Closed-Door’ Meeting with China’s Central Bank

The People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank, is continuing its involvement in looking into bitcoin exchanges’ activities in the country by holding a ‘closed-door’ meeting with domestic bitcoin exchanges. According to a Bloomberg report, PBOC officials are meeting representatives from a number of regional bitcoin exchanges in a private meeting on Wednesday afternoon, local time. The publication’s source points to money laundering as one of several topics on the agenda in the closed-doors meeting. The PBOC has publicly revealed its involvement and several ‘on-site inspections’ for....


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