Ethereum Activities Increase in China; Trading, Conferences, Discussions
Ethereum activities are rising in China, due to increasing interests in the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and the Ethereum network’s applicability to a wide range of infrastructures across various industries. Chinese bitcoin exchanges have recognized a surge in interest and demand for Ethereum and as a result, several major bitcoin exchanges including OKCoin have announced the integration of support for Ethereum or Ether trading. On March 31, nine days prior to releasing its newly updated Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) systems, OKCoin confirmed with CnLedger, a....
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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....
What excites the Bitcoin community and additionally expands the Bitcoin usership base? Conferences! This year while Bitcoin conferences abound, Mediabistro will be taking a world tour with conferences kicking off in Berlin, Germany. New York City. Hong Kong, China. London, England; and Las Vegas, Nevada. This past year, Mediabistro put on conferences in New York City and Las Vegas and drew crowds from within and outside of the Bitcoin community. Bitcoin Magazine is proud to serve as a media partner for several of the upcoming conferences. For starters, Berlin serves as one of the lead....
Blockchain conferences are much different than Bitcoin conferences. Whereas Bitcoin conferences might have been heavy on theoretics about liberating the world’s unbanked, the blockchain conference has a much more generalized focused. Many new participants in the space are uninterested in wildly shaking up the status quo. This has been on display early in the year. In San Francisco, two recent blockchain conferences features some of the most influential financial technologists in the space. The first, hosted by Lighthouse Partners, featured banking names interested in the prospects of....
The Two Bitcoin Conferences of 2013. After the first two successful Bitcoin conferences that took place in Prague in 2011 and London in 2012, it has been announced that there will in fact be two Bitcoin conferences taking place in 2013. The first, entitled "The Future of Payments", will take place in San Jose, California on May 17-19, and the second, named "unSYSTEM", will happen in Vienna on 1-3 November. The two conferences will be in a similar format to those run in 2011 and 2012; they will both take up a weekend, feature a number of speakers making presentations on topics either....
Authorities in Indonesia do not intend to follow China’s example of imposing an outright ban on cryptocurrencies, a government official said, noting the country will limit itself to ensuring they are not used in illegal activities. The statement comes after local crypto exchanges registered a serious increase in turnover this year. Indonesia to Tighten Regulations Without Prohibiting Crypto Transactions The Indonesian government will not follow in the footsteps of China, which has confirmed a ban on all cryptocurrency transactions, the country’s Minister of Trade Muhammad....