BlockQuake™ Announces Zero Fees Trading

The era of no-fee trading in China appears to be over. Following in the footsteps of China's 'Big Three' exchanges, smaller competitors BTC Trade, BTC100, CHBTC, Dahonghuo, Yuanbao and BitBays all moved to impose or increase trading fees yesterday in the wake of a meeting with the People's Bank of China, China's central bank. Both BTC Trade and CHBTC said that the fees would come into force on 13th February, whereas the other exchanges did not identify a starting date. Further, with the exception of BTC 100 and BitBays, the exchanges all moved to add 0.2% maker and taker fees. BitBays is....

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....

BTC China has reinstated trading fees in an attempt to combat market manipulation. BTC China has, after 3 successful months, has decided to resume trading fees. For a few weeks now, because of 0% trading fees, BTC China has consistently been the highest volume BTC exchange. Trading fees will be 0.3%, the announcement reads: Dear BTC China valued customer: To stabilize the recent turbulent Bitcoin market and minimize potential market manipulation, BTC China will end the 0% trading fee promotion, effective immediately, and revert to the 0.3% trading fee. We deeply apologize for the sudden....

Four major Chinese Bitcoin exchanges including BTCC, Huobi, OKCoin and Yunbi have officially begun to charge trading fees to all users, traders and investors, as of Jan. 24, 2017. BTCC, the world’s oldest and largest Bitcoin exchange, first announced its plans to implement trading fees on Jan. 20. OKCoin, Yunbi and Huobi shortly followed BTCC, announcing their official decisions to charge trading fees to Chinese users within 24 hours since the announcement of BTCC. Why did Bitcoin exchanges introduce fees? All three Bitcoin exchanges that were previously inspected by the People’s Bank of....

Bitok.com, a Bitcoin exchange officially registered in England, has just announced a campaign which will allow users to deposit and withdraw funds with 0% fees. With the fees removed, Bitok is now significantly cheaper for traders in terms of the fees they pay. In addition to BTC trades, Bitok also allows users to trade for Litecoin (LTC) and Dogecoin (Doge) in several different currency pairs (fiat currency and cryptocurrency.) Bitok provides multiple options for funding accounts and withdrawing money including wire transfer, Skrill, as well payment systems like OKPay, MoneyPolo, and....