The new guidance is of a piece with other recent
regulatory moves China has been making as it attempts to limit the reach of the bitcoin industry — like shutting down local bitcoin exchanges and outright banning ICOs.
Not exact matches
The RBI
move is in line with the government's stance that cryptocurrencies are not legal tender and is also in sync with greater
regulatory scrutiny by central banks of several other countries including the US, Japan,
China and South Korea.
Neil Wilson, a senior analyst at ETX Capital, said in an email on Tuesday morning: «Bitcoin faces a
regulatory crunch sooner or later and increasingly we see signs of this starting to bite following South Korea's tentative plans to ban trading on cryptocurrencies and
China's
move to shutter mines.
Maybe you are referring to
China and some of those other countries that overrestrictive
regulatory policies have forced companies to
move to??
In the later part of 2017, countries such as
China and India both major markets for digital currencies made extensive
moves to ban exchanges and ICO's while Japan and the U.S. both struggle with creating a
regulatory balance that allows exchanges to do business while controlling fraud and crypto related criminal activity.
The fall of cryptocurrencies has been largely triggered by efforts of
China and South Korea to curb the cryptocurrency trading, as well as
regulatory moves of major world banks, including Bank of America, JP Morgan, and Lloyds Banking Group, to ban cryptocurrency transactions.
More importantly, it is beneficial for the long - term health of the global bitcoin market that trading volumes from
China are
moving to Japan and South Korea, two countries that have the most practical and efficient
regulatory frameworks for both bitcoin investors and businesses.
In response to questions from Ventureburn on whether it is concerned on the legality of ICOs following their banning in
China and
move to regulate them in the US, the Reserve Bank said in a statement to Ventureburn that it has taken note of
regulatory developments surrounding initial coin offerings (ICOs).
Instead, the
regulatory move, he said, is positive news marking
China's recognition of the importance of the industry.
Little more than a week ago, before
China's
regulatory moves, the volatile cryptocurrency hit an all - time high of $ 5,000.
The Bitcoin «legitimizing» drive is boosting up the confidence level of investors in a stark contrast to the rigid
regulatory moves undertaken by South Korea and
China leading to an outright ICO ban.
While apparently keen on creating a centrally governed cryptocurrency,
China famously banned initial coin offerings (ICOs) in mid-September - a
move soon followed by the closure of cryptocurrency exchanges amid the tightening
regulatory environment.
In the event, the absence of cryptocurrency or ICO related topics promptly killed the talk of further crypto scrutiny for now, yet it still remains to be seen whether
China will
move to enforce further
regulatory measures on cryptocurrency activities, following its existing oversight efforts.
The country previously banned initial coin offerings and exchanges — two
moves that had minor impacts on prices —
China's continued
regulatory scrutiny is starting to have a more lasting effect.
Opening up to a global
regulatory framework established by the twenty most powerful nations in the world is a strategic
move to exercise influence, but it is also a new hope for cryptocurrency traders and users in
China.
After the ban on initial coin offerings and the
regulatory moves to shut down local coin exchanges, the market on cryptocurrency in
China hit a stark decline.