Jan 2014, China bans bitcoin trading
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-bitcoin/alibaba-division-bans-bitcoin-after-china-crackdown-as-ipo-looms-idUSBREA070F620140108Apr 2014, China won't ban bitcoin
https://www.coindesk.com/chinas-central-bank-governor-pboc-wont-ban-bitcoinMay 2015, bitcoin supposedly banned in china
https://www.ccn.com/top-10-countries-bitcoin-banned/Nov 2015, bitcoin not banned in China
https://www.coindesk.com/taiwan-finance-regulation-bitcoin-ban/Jan 2016, China wants to release their own coin with potential threats of btc ban again:
http://bitcoinchaser.com/crypto-currency-chinaJune 2016, bitcoin not banned in China
https://news.bitcoin.com/china-recognize-bitcoin-peoples-rights/Jan 6 2017, china threatens to ban bitcoin
https://themerkle.com/how-the-peoples-bank-of-china-denied-bitcoins-ath/Oh, but a week later, Jan 13 2017, China isnt banning bitcoin
https://themerkle.com/why-china-isnt-interested-in-banning-bitcoin-importance-of-regulationSep 2017, again China bitcoin FUD due to ICO ban
https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2017/09/09/why-china-crushed-bitcoinAnd crypto exchanges were dead in China by early nov 2017
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2017/11/02/cryptocurrency-exchanges-officially-dead-in-china/#19938f52a839JUST BEFORE the BOOM to nearly $20,000!
currently, Jan 2018, china threatens to ban bitcoin causing btc decline
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/bitcoin-price-china-exchange-ban-cryptocurrency-trading-government-a8161721.htmlThis is just a tip of the iceberg, this Asian BTC-FUD has probably happened a dozen or more times over the last 4-5 years.
And now we are going to see another BTC all-time high in the coming months!
Haha curious I never knew this. So we should really contact China and ask them to settle all this at once and decide what they want with bitcoin and cryptos. I think China being such a huge market has a great impact on the price of bitcoin. When on peak chinese exchange's had a much higher price of bitcoin than the rest of the world but I still think that China won't be able to come up with a complete ban rather it might just hold off things for sometime. Market will recover soon.