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While Chinese investors are losing their savings, some people are buying bitcoin. China’s stock market fall is pushing bitcoin higher. The bitcoin price reached a peak of $298.

Bitcoin goes up

Bitcoin price rise began in the early hours on 10 July. The price rose to $280 and reached the $294 mark by 18:30. Later in the evening bitcoin fell to $282. During the next day, bitcoin quickly went over the $290 mark and swiftly rose to $298.58.

Chinese bitcoin exchange OKCoin led the way. On 10 July, Chinese brokers were buying bitcoin at $305. The next day, some Chinese merchants were paying $380 for one unit of digital currency.

This happened when Shanghai Composite Index was down by 30% from its pre-crisis value. At the same time, another popular cryptocurrency, Litecoin lost around 20% of its price forcing market makers to leave it for bitcoin.

Big problems in China

This July, China’s stock market was suffering their worst slump since the world’s financial crisis. Many financial analytics have already compared it to the Wall Street crash in the late 1920s, which caused a global catastrophe and extended to all major economic players. Chinese stocks have become the most volatile among the major markets after Greece, Bloomberg stated yesterday.

According to the latest information, Chinese stocks lost about $3.9 trillion in value, more than the entire French stock market and the total annual output of Germany combined. The bubble burst on 12 June, and after that Shanghai Composite Index was down by about 30%, while Shenzhen Composite has lost roughly 40%.

China is trying to stop the market slide. The People’s Bank of China has considerably cut interest rates. The government started buying stocks and allowed over a half of China's stocks to stop trading and suspend new IPOs. The China Securities Regulatory Commission banned shareholders with stakes of more than 5% from selling shares for six months.

More than 1,331 companies ceased trading on China’s mainland exchanges, freezing about $2.6 trillion of shares or about 40% of the country’s market value ...

http://www.coinfox.info/news/reviews/2389-epic-market-crash-in-china-raised-the-price-of-bitcoin

And the prices of Litecoin and Bitcoin as we know now  :D

I think this might have particularly affected the Litecoin price! Besides this there also other news accusing a Chinese based group was pumping LTC through a ponzi scheme:

https://blog.bitmex.com/chinese-promoter-pumping-litecoin-via-ponzi-scheme/ (https://blog.bitmex.com/chinese-promoter-pumping-litecoin-via-ponzi-scheme/)