That comes after the price of bitcoin shot as low as about $ 3,000 in mid-September, after Chinese authorities
shuttered local cryptocurrency exchanges, while J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon dubbed bitcoin a «fraud.»
The embracive stance toward blockchain technology is in stark contrast to China's crippling curbs against
local cryptocurrency markets which has seen initial coin offerings (ICOs) outlawed and crypto exchanges phased out to effectively
shutter domestic trading markets.