«If we continue to have to
trade key readiness measures like spare parts and maintenance and training hours away because the cost of energy has increased, that
ultimately erodes our readiness as well as our combat capability, making us less ready to deploy and do our
nation's bidding.»
Officials in the world's most populous
nation ultimately ordered those cryptocurrency exchanges to cease
trading and shut down in mid-September, which combined with BTCC's closure effectively ended the «Big Three» ecosystem and pushed
trading activities within China to over-the-counter markets.