China Launches Bitcoin Crackdown: PBOC Will Probe Abnormal Investor Behavior “And Rectify Misbheavior”

Saturday, January 7, 2017
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Jan 7, 2017

Having long been advocates of Bitcoin (ever since Sept. 2015 when it traded at $230) for the simple reason that we were confident the digital currency would eventually become China’s favorite means of circumventing capital controls – precisely as has transpired – two months ago we warned that the unprecedented surge which made bitcoin the best performing asset in the past year with a 5x return, may be ending as “China Prepares To Impose Curbs, “Capital Controls” On Bitcoin.”

Since then, and especially over the past week, China has launched a series of incremental steps designed to do just that, which culminated on Friday when China’s central bank issued a statement calling the changes in the virtual currency “abnormal”, and said authorities have required the trading platform to operate in compliance. They urged the platform to “probe investors’ behavior and to “rectify misbehavior.”

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