Is Bitcoin dead if China decides to ban Bitcoin?
Bitcoin exchanges in China are preparing to shut down their trading services in the country.
Here are the latest official announcements from 4 large exchanges in China.
| Exchange | Halts trading services on | Announcement |
|---|---|---|
| BTCC | September 30 | Official announcement |
| ViaBTC | September 30 | Official announcement |
| OKCoin.cn | October 30 | Official announcement |
| Huobi | October 30 | Official announcement |
According to the latest rumors China’s bitcoin exchange ban does not impact crypto to crypto trading, only fiat to crypto and crypto to fiat.
But how bad is this actually for Bitcoin?
Websites blocked in mainland China
According to Wikipedia, around 3,000 websites are blocked by Chinese authorities under the country's policy of Internet censorship.
Google, Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram and Pinterest are all on the list of blocked websites in China.
China turned out the lights on Facebook in 2009, yet the website is one of the most popular websites worldwide. Google and Youtube don't seem to have a problem either. The Chinese people need Bitcoin in my opinion, but Bitcoin will go on without China if the government decides to ban the digital currency. It would be a very bad decision for the Chinese people, but not for Bitcoin. Bitcoin doesn't need China, China needs Bitcoin.
I'm still as bullish on Bitcoin as I was a few weeks ago. China won't change that!
I'm happy to see the market is recovering from the big losses right after I bought earlier today. My lucky day :-)
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If the world still wants Bitcoin, the world will still have bitcoin.
China is merely a symptom of the status quo way of handling money being challenged. It's China's "OMG! Our monopoly and control mechanisms are being challenged!" moment. It's happening sooner in China because it's a nation with a history of totalitarian governance.
I believe that over the next 10-20 years, this kind of thing will happen all around the world, as each national government, and each fiat currency and each banking system will have its own "wakeup moment" of needing to decide what to do with being challenged. Are they going to be Switzerland, and embrace new systems, or are they going to be (for the moment) China, and reject them?
In the meantime-- WE (meaning ALL of us) have to "vote" with our consciences, and support cryptos because we believe they hold the future... OR give into other pressures and go home "because the government says so."
That choice is OURS.
It may even be, in China... black markets have a way of forming, if something is truly wanted....
I agree!
Thanks for your comment !
We need a new consciencius order and China or JP Morgan can not stop it.
China will not ban bitcoin. It is no in their interest to stifle blockchain technology. The ban is only temporary until regulations are in place. If they wanted to ban crypto-currencies they would have done it already. They are more worried about some of the cryptos being scams and pyramid schemes. In China these are very common and has just moved online thus resulting in the crackdown now!
I think so too!
Really good take on this situation. Every bit of news is a good thing for the growth of BTC. BTC will be just fine without China and as more and more people look for safe havens from the runaway fiat money printing machine, BTC will be the landing spot for quite a few investors in the future.
DEX - DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE that is the answer.
Whatever china bans later becomes a global success ..
Bullish :D
Well, I said it numerous times around here before: the critical spot is the interface between the Crypto- and the Realworld.
And same as regularly people reply "but Crypto is anonymous and not traceable".
Yes, it is, as long as you only shuffle it around in cyber space.
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there is something that keeps baffling me ,, bitcoin or cryptocurrency is meant to be decentralised and no government has power over it ,, that is ,, its value depends on the users adoption ,,, my question is ,,, how is the chinese government able to ban the bitcoin and its really having effect ?
They're controlling fiat, not crypto. Its tanking the price, because a lot of people are assuming this will tank the price; a self fulfilling prophecy.
now i get it,, but this is possible because of the fear people has and i think also the anonymity of it's creator
Yeah, people have fear of losing their money, but they also have fear of missing out (FOMO).
That's why they sell, and also why they buy.
Nobody cares that we don't know who Satoshi is.
If anything, keeping his head down is reassuring proof that he's brilliant :)
yeah , you have a point
To look at me you'd be forgiven for assuming I'm just coasting by on my movie-star good looks; but I'm also quite clever.
Haha, yes you are. Great points!
The main reason for China ban on ICO and crypto exchange is they are now testing their own National Cryptocurrency in between Chinese commercial banks and they make the place clean for their national centralized crypto. I just made a post about it. Thanks https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@ricko66/time-to-stake-some-crypto-currency
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