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Bitcoin Crashes 35% In Chinese Trading: Second Largest Exchange To Halt All Trading

Courtesy of ZeroHedge. View original post here.

Yuan-denominated Bitcoin has crashed as much as 25% 35% in Chinese trading, plunging from 25,000 yuan to as a low of 16,000 on local exchanges BTCChina and OKCoin, following confirmation of last week’s Caixin report that China is halting all cryptocurrency exchange trading. China’s second largest exchange, BTC China, said that it would halt all trading on the platform beginning September 30, launching a liquidation panic.

In a statement released on Weibo, BTC China said that it would immediately stops accepting new account registrations on BTCChina Exchange. The decision was made after “carefully considering” Chinese regulatory bodies’ Sept. 4 announcement on preventing risks associated with token fundraising. A google-translated version of the statement:

China will stop all trading business on September 30th

Dear Bitcoal Chinese users: According to the September 4 issue of the “People’s Bank of China Central Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Ministry of Industry and Commerce, China Banking Regulatory Commission, China Securities Regulatory Commission on the prevention and treatment of the risk of the issuance of the currency,” the spirit of the document, adhering to the protection of investment risks, the maximum protection of users

The principle of interest, Bit Coin Chinese team by careful discussion, is to make the following decision:

1. Bit currency China’s digital asset trading platform today to stop the registration of new users;

2. September 30, 2017 Digital asset trading platform will stop all trading business.

Beitou China’s pool (pool) and other business will not be affected, continue to normal operation.

We apologize for the inconvenience. If you have any questions, please contact support@btcchina.com.

And on Twitter:

1/ After carefully considering the announcement published by Chinese regulators on 09/04, BTCChina Exchange will stop all trading on 09/30.

— BTCC (@YourBTCC) September 14, 2017

2/ BTCC products, including BTCC Pool, are not affected by this change. Please contact us at support@btcc.com if you have any questions. https://t.co/r3HvINU20p

— BTCC (@YourBTCC) September 14, 2017

The immediate result was a sharp plunge in the CNY-denominated price of bitcoin on exchanges like BTC China and OKCoin:

While China no longer dominates cryptocurrency trading – it accounted for nearly 90% of all trading in late 2016 before Beijing launched a series of measures to limit participaton – and is now responsible for less than 40% of global volumes, the Chinese selloff has spooked global markets, pushing bitcoin sharply lower on international exchanges as well like Coinbase, where it was trading at approximately $3,600 last. 

A breakdown of global bitcoin exchanges by volume is shown below:

Also notable: as of this moment, China-denominated bitcoin is trading at about 17,000 yuan or just under US$2,500, indicating there is a nearly 30% arb between Chinese and offshore trading.

It remains to be seen if Chinese bitcoin fans will simply switch to other OTC/bilateral forms of trading, or simply take their trading to neighboring Japan and South Korea which remain eager advocates of trading in the crypto space.

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