Chinese users are currently unable to search for popular crypto exchanges on the country’s internet services amid reports of possible censorship.
Keywords searches for online trading platforms including Binance, OKEx and Huobi on popular internet services such as Baidu, Sogo, Zhihu, or Weibo are yielding no results. Other media outlets including CoinDesk first reported the possible blockage.
The Chinese government has recently renewed a regulatory crackdown on crypto mining and trading, helping send Bitcoin down about 45% since its peak in April.
The exchanges that appear to be impacted are some of the largest in the digital-asset world, with Asia-based users being among the earliest adopters. Binance is the world’s biggest crypto platform, with $30 billion in trading volume in the last 24 hours, according to CoinMarketCap.com, a site owned by Binance.
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https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/6/9/searches-for-crypto-exchanges-currently-blocked-in-china
Why does Eastern government always want to have everything under their control?? The sooner they come to terms with bitcoin being an assets that was never meant to be under the control of one entity the better for everyone.
This is not the first time China has had a currency-related ban. In 2017, Beijing banned domestic cryptocurrency exchanges and initial coin offerings (ICOs). At the time, China accounted for 90% of all global Bitcoin transactions. However, this ban does not prevent individual investors from buying currencies through foreign exchanges. On the other hand, they ban bitcoin but try to create a digital yuan for central bank issuance. They are simply unique and they want to control everything.