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Re: Don't panic, China is NOT banning bitcoin
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lindatess
on 05/12/2013, 09:41:56 UTC
Even if you can create a BTC-China account. You won't be able to withdraw to a chinese bank account anymore.
Is that really the case?

I wouldn't have expected Bobby Lee's statement to be as upbeat in that case.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-05/china-s-pboc-bans-financial-companies-from-bitcoin-transactions.html

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“We’re happy to see the government start regulating the Bitcoin exchanges,” Chief Executive Officer Bobby Lee of BTC China, the largest Bitcoin exchange in the country, said today in a phone interview before the PBOC announcement was made. Regulations would be for “the good of the consumer,” he said. BTC is seeking recognition of the currency so it can be used to buy goods and services instead of being used for speculation, he said.

New rules for Bitcoin may not clarify Bitcoin’s legal status as regulators are divided over the issue, the people said. People are free to trade Bitcoin even as China refrains from recognizing it as a currency in the short term, PBOC’s Deputy Governor Yi Gang was cited by the 21st Century Business Herald as saying last month.

said today in a phone interview before the PBOC announcement was made