China: No Bitcoin Processing For Domestic Payments Companies

By  |  December 17, 2013
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The People’s Bank of China has barred the country’s domestic payments processors from handling bitcoin transactions, CoinDesk reported on December 17.

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    The move follows the central bank’s announcement that Chinese banks are banned from using or investing in bitcoin.

    Since the announcement, the price of Bitcoin fell more than $200 on Chinese exchanges as domestic investors moved to sell their holdings.

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