Within an hour after opening their new Digcoin “hashing power mortgage” product to users, Beijing-based bitcoin exchange Huobi had sold out of all available shares. The interest-bearing Dig-VC mining service, which is arranged to suggest a “certificate of deposit”-style of investment, provides a guaranteed, monthly interest rate of 1.2%. Each share has a minimum 60-day […]
The final member of China’s “big three” bitcoin exchanges has passed a proof-of-solvency audit with flying colors. In an independent audit published by Ripple Labs CTO Stefan Thomas, Huobi appears to have 103.52% of total customer deposits in reserve. Thomas provided the auditing service free of charge, as he did when auditing Kraken and Bitfinex […]
Chinese bitcoin and litecoin exchange Huobi announced this week that it has acquired two significant cryptocurrency properties: Multi-signature wallet provider Quickwallet and blockchain explorer system Qukuai. The new services will dramatically expand Huobi’s commercial offerings, and may well represent an attempt to grow the company beyond its current niche as one of the “big three” […]
It’s no surprise that cryptocurrency exchanges OKCoin and Huobi managed to recover after the slaughter of China’s “bitcoin ban” earlier this year. While other exchanges were complying with the rules established by the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), and hoping that the still-tiny bitcoin industry would fly under the regulators authority, OKCoin and Huobi were […]
China’s six-month banking crackdown on bitcoin-related businesses has resulted in huge headaches for the entire cryptocurrency community. Due to the People’s Bank of China strangling of local bitcoin exchanges’ access to the country’s banking system, there is significant doubt about the future of bitcoin in mainland China. Many smaller exchanges, such as FXBTC, have already […]
Under increasing pressure from the People’s Bank of China, two of the “big five” Chinese bitcoin exchanges have announced plans to alter their business models. Although the PBoC issued new rules in December dramatically limiting access to the country’s banking system for bitcoin-based business, those rules have only been meaningfully enforced in recent weeks. Several […]
Earlier today, China’s five largest bitcoin exchanges released a joint statement on the Twitter-like social-networking site Weibo. The statement acts as both a mea culpa for the ongoing problems in with bitcoin in China, as well as the first public announcement of a move towards self-regulation for the exchanges. The five participating exchanges are OKCoin, […]
Chinese bitcoin exchanges have had a rough month. They’ve seen the price plummet, several rounds of sell-off panic and dealt with unprecedented levels of insecurity for their own financial accounts. Just a few days ago, many of the major Chinese exchanges were informed by their banking partners that most of their current deposit services and […]
Last week, Chinese business newspaper Caixin reported that the People’s Bank of China had plans to ban all banks and third-party financial systems from working with the country’s 15 bitcoin exchanges. The rumor sent bitcoin prices into a steep plunge, dropping to around $450. Today, those rumors have a bit more fuel. Chinese exchange BTC38 […]
Chinese Bitcoin exchange Huobi announced today that it would begin trading in “cryptocurrency silver” Litecoin starting on March 19. Almost immediately after the announcement, Litecoin prices began to climb steeply, jumping from $16 to a peak of around $17.5. The Bitcoin and Litecoin market in China is substantial, and earlier this month BTC China announced […]