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The Chinese government is continuing to intensify its crackdown on the cryptocurrency market, Bloomberg reported, and is planning on extending its ban on crypto exchanges to pursue alternative «online platforms and mobile apps that offer exchange - like services.»

BEIJING (Alliance News)-- South Korea's finance minister on Friday sought to calm the cryptocurrency market after an announcement a day ago that the country's justice ministry was planning a ban on crypto exchanges, sending prices of digital currencies such as Bitcoin sharply lower.

Here is the bright side though: A ban on crypto exchanges won't mean the end of digital currency trading.

By the end of January, Korea's finance minister stressed the government had no intention of enforcing a ban on crypto exchanges or trading.

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Crypto crackdown China, home to the world's biggest community of Bitcoin miners, is cracking down on cryptocurrency activity, haling trade of virtual currencies on domestic exchanges and banning initial currency offerings.

September was when China issued an all - out war on crypto, banning domestic exchanges and initial coin offerings (ICOs).

photo static.dnaindia.com Of events Wednesday: 3 large companies sue social network for the advertising ban crypto; European control of the market increases requirements for CFDs; Ford offers a motion control system that uses tokens; Uphold adds support for XRP; Cocoa Corp announced the launch of the platform the Blockchain; On exchanges is red.

The national Bank of Kazakhstan is considering a ban on the exchange of crypto currency for the national currency — Tenge, and mining for crypto currency, according to local service Sputnik.

Ads on crypto currency has also disappeared from the Chinese social networking, at a time when life was part of the ban exchanges kryptowalutowych and ICO.

It is unclear whether this is a full on ban of bitcoin mining or simply a closure of the biggest mining farms, but after banning crypto exchanges and ICOs, China now seems to be moving towards fully curtailing bitcoin operations.

The latest sign that China's regulators are actively scrutinizing cryptocurrency exchanges, the report further explained that the execution plan came into effect in September last year when People's Bank of China (PBoC) put out its ban on initial coin offerings (ICO) and ordered closure of fiat - to - crypto trading.

Facebook, Google and Twitter's bans on cryptocurrency advertising are unlikely to make a sizable dent in traffic to crypto exchanges, according to SimilarWeb.

This is an unofficial ban on crypto trade in India - and cryptocurrency traders as well as cryptocurrency exchanges have been outraged against this draconian decision.

The news from India added to the existing pessimism in the cryptocurrency market on account of China's announcement of blocking foreign crypto exchanges, and the move by major banks such as JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, and Bank of America from the US and Lloyds Bank from the UK to ban cryptocurrency purchases via their credit cards.

Founded last year in Hong Kong by Changpeng Zhao, the exchange moved its operations to Japan in response to China's ban on crypto activities last September.

After China's new bans on ICOs and cryptocurrency exchanges, Chinese sites Baidu and Weibo have reportedly stopped allowing crypto - related ads.

Other events, such as Facebook banning crypto - related ads on its platform, the world's biggest cryptocurrency heist worth $ 530 million dollars in Japan's crypto - exchange Coincheck and the US SEC announcing investigations against ICOs all worked towards pushing down the prices of cryptocurrencies across the board.

China ordered a complete ban on all initial coin offerings by pulling down the shutters of cryptocurrency trading exchanges for containing the inherent financial risks associated with money laundering and hacking of virtual wallets which has plagued the crypto world since the very beginning.

Facebook issued its ban on crypto ads in January, claiming the measures were implemented against certain spams and fraudulent money exchange methods were observed on the social media platform.

Soon after Trump signed an executive order to put a ban on Venezuela's cryptocurrency, Petro in The States, now the latest crypto news coming in is that, Bitfine which is the largest cryptocurrency exchange, has issued a statement on the 27th March 2018 regarding in which it restricts the sale of Venezuela's state - issued Petro Token (PTR).

The comment may signal an increasing level of scrutiny down the road by the PBoC over initial coin offerings and trading services that are still available for domestic investors, even after regulators issued a ban on ICOs and essentially pushed fiat - to - crypto exchanges out of the domestic market.

This could be attributed to the difficulties the Crypto space faced last week from FUD involving South Korean Justice department announcing a Crypto ban on noncompliance exchanges to Indonesia moving towards banning all Crypto related activities in the Country and Brazil declaring cryptocurrencies as a non-financial asset.

As attention focuses on South Korea's regulatory battle with cryptocurrency trading, Bloomberg reports that across the border, where official crypto - to - fiat exchanges have been banned since September, «exchange - like services» are now also on officials» radar.

In the aftermath of the Chinese ban of RMB on bitcoin exchanges and subsequent non-conducive environment for any exchange operation, one of the larger China - born exchanges Huobi has moved its attention to Huobi Pro, their Hong Kong - registered crypto only exchange company launched in July.

This sets Japan on a path to becoming the headquarters for everything Bitcoin, especially since China recently crippled their crypto market by banning exchanges.

Businesses less reliant than exchanges on fiat - crypto gateways, such as merchant services and secure wallets, and the ASIC hardware manufacturers keeping China's booming mining operations equipped, are reportedly shrugging at the bank bans and pushing on with their growth plans.

The Korean government has been trying to restrict crypto - trading recently, raiding major exchanges and floating ideas such as bans on domestic trading.

Bitcoin is up more than 8 % Wednesday morning, mirroring the broader cryptocurrency market, after the South Korean government appeared to backpedal on its reported plans to ban crypto mining and exchanges in the country.

Soon after Trump signed an executive order to put a ban on Venezuela's cryptocurrency, Petro in The States, now the latest crypto news coming in is that, Bitfine which is the largest cryptocurrency exchange, has issued a statement on the 27th March 2018 regarding in...

Yeon's positive comments about Blockchain and cryptocurrencies come after a period of harsher restrictions on crypto investing and exchanges in South Korea, with the country's ban on anonymous trading of cryptocurrencies and a false scare of an overall crypto ban making the markets dip.

Since last week, a wave of controversy has arisen in South Korea over the government's attempts to more strictly regulate crypto markets, like the banning of the use of anonymous virtual accounts connected to crypto exchanges, forbidding underage citizens and foreigners to invest in crypto markets, and falsey announcing a total blanket ban on cryptocurrency trading.

With a crazy rush of investors registering on crypto exchanges and given concerns over issues connected with money laundering and tax evasion, the South Korean government banned the opening of any virtual accounts on the exchanges last month and even asked the existing virtual currency traders to change their virtual accounts to the ones with real names.

JPMorgan's ban goes into effect on Saturday, Feb. 3, while Bank of America's ban became effective immediately, with the bank declining credit card transactions with crypto exchanges, as per internal memos obtained by Bloomberg.

Japan which has been one of the most crypto - friendly nations attracts a large number of foreign exchange operators, especially from China which has introduced a blanket ban on any sort of crypto activities, last year in September 2017.

Having Binance one of the biggest and most popular exchanges on the crypto market, this ban would be a major defeat for the crypto community and coins trading on Binance alike.

JPMorgan, enacting the ban Saturday and Bank of America started declining credit card transactions with known crypto exchanges on Friday.

South Korea, which is well known for the high public use of cryptocurrencies, also implemented a crypto ban of anonymous trading on cryptocurrency exchanges this year.

There was also a huge speculation about Korean likely to put a China - like ban on crypto trading activities in the country along with the complete shutdown of domestic crypto exchange.

There have been bans on initial coin offerings (ICOs), crypto - fiat exchanges, and since February 2018, a ban on all foreign crypto exchanges.

Last week was also disappointing for crypto projects as Twitter announced intended ban on crypto and ICO - related bans although with limited exceptions that the businesses must be verified to advertise their products and services (the ban includes ban on ads relating to initial coin offerings (ICOs), cryptocurrency wallets, and exchanges).

Though, the Indian government has yet to take a firm decision on whether or not to legalize cryptocurrencies; India's leading Bitcoin exchange, Unocoin, suggests crypto - coin trading could be possible through online banking even if exchanges are banned.