China moves against Bitcoin

China’s biggest Bitcoin exchange was forced to stop accepting renminbi deposits on Wednesday, sending the price of the virtual currency tumbling in one of its biggest markets globally.

You will find more here, and FT coverage here.  Since Tuesday, the price of Bitcoin in China has fallen more than thirty percent.  Here is my earlier post on China and Bitcoin., where I wrote “If Beijing shuts down BTC China, the main broker, which by the way accounts for about 1/3 of all Bitcoin transactions in the world, the value of Bitcoin very likely will fall.”  And here is Hal Varian on Bitcoin.

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