But since bitcoin has become a store of value as a hedge
against a falling yuan, the «digital gold» currency could continue on its upwards trajectory.
But since bitcoin has become a store of value as a hedge
against a falling yuan, the «digital gold» currency could continue on its upwards trajectory.
More Chinese investors are buying Bitcoin to use as a hedge
against the falling Yuan.
Not exact matches
Already some of his comments have been blamed for the currency
falling, most recently to two month lows
against the Japanese yen, after he claimed the strength of the US dollar
against China's
yuan was «killing us».
The onshore
yuan, also called the renminbi, is constrained by a trading band: China's central bank, the People's Bank of China (PBOC), lets the
yuan spot rate rise or
fall a maximum of 2 percent
against the dollar, relative to the official fixing rate, which is set daily.
Investors around the world were taken by surprise on Tuesday after the People's Bank of China (PBoC) devalued the
yuan by almost 2 percent
against the U.S. dollar, causing the currency to suffer its biggest
fall in over two decades.
(Cryptos are a popular way for mainland investors to diversify away from a volatile
yuan, which
fell to more than eight - year lows
against the dollar in 2016.)