China bans crypto trading and mining


Source: canberratimes.com.au canberratimes.com.au

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China's most powerful regulators have intensified a crackdown on cryptocurrencies with a blanket ban on all crypto transactions and mining, hitting bitcoin and other major coins and pressuring crypto and blockchain-related stocks. Ten agencies - including the central bank, financial, securities and foreign exchange regulators - vowed to work together to root out "illegal" cryptocurrency activity, the first time the Beijing-based regulators have joined forces to explicitly ban all cryptocurrency-related activity. China in May banned financial institutions and payment companies from providing services related to cryptocurrency transactions and issued similar bans in 2013 and 2017. The repeated prohibitions highlight the...