Given all this FUD about banning bitcoin exchanges, aren't there already existing decentralized exchanges which china can use?
Those kinds of exchanges are literally un-bannable right?
The exchange is, but unfortunately not the persons who are doing the transactions.
Basically the risk is being transferred to the customers.
And if the Chinese government wants to trace your finances, they will do it pretty fast.
You will have to avoid bank transfers and then work with other 3rd party payment gateways.
So imagine all the trouble of selling and acquiring
BTC by going first and buying something like wmz or whatever they use there, then transfer them to another person, wait for the escrow to clear the payments and hope you won't get scammed.
And the other way around, selling
BTC for fiat when most payment processors offer refunds and chargebacks?