Whether it's the Chinese, or the Koreans, or the Russians or us Americans is anybody's guess at this moment, but what it looks like for a few cryptocurrency players out there is that the Chinese have found a new way to get back into the game. China banned initial coin offerings and bitcoin exchanges in the first week of September. The ban caused a precipitous drop in cryptocurrency flows worldwide. China's ban is likely temporary. The U.S. and Japan are quickly moving to create rules that will help to legitimize cryptocurrencies by giving investors protections under existing securities laws. That will help companies raise capital through alternative methods, rather than via venture capital and the equity markets, potentially opening up a whole new financial market. Most crypto-currencies have recovered since China took a hammer to the two biggest names: bitcoin and ether. Bitcoin prices are over $4,000 again.