Chinese search engines block results for top crypto exchanges
Typing in the keywords for crypto exchanges Binance, OKEx and Huobi on Chinese search engines is currently pulling up no results. China’s stance toward decentralized cryptocurrency trading appears to be getting even tougher. Chinese journalist Colin Wu and crypto news site 8BTCNews have both claimed that as of Wednesday, search results for some of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges are pulling up zero results.Cointelegraph’s staff in China have themselves searched for cryptocurrency exchanges on the search engines and confirmed that results are inaccessible. However, a compound....
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