China and its people deem themselves higher than all races across the Globe. They use their own sites because they do not want to see the truth the world will say about them, if they would darepost the stuff they spout on their own sites in google, facebook or twitter, you can bet they would hear a lot of what they dont want to hear. They like to pump their people up, and lead them to believe China are the smartest people and strongest country in the world, and they dont want to hear anything against what they have to say. They are in territorial disputes with about 15 different nations Japan being one of the biggest disputes, recently they tried hacking the US defense system and got caught, and now they have just made a direct attack on British people and their intelligence, china feels they are untouchable, and they keep pushing buttons on a lot of countries, this will soon backfire on them, and shows how utterly stupid the chinese people are. they have absolutely no leadership qualities of a growing empire and show this in their ignorance on a daily basis, when you catch them doing something illegal, they spin the story and blame you for the exact same act. They are cowards, and idiots, who think their crap dont stink.

They are not needed in the bitcoin industry and i can bet they spend hours upon hours trying to hack it, the first thing they do not like about the currency is it was founded by Japanese name. And they hate, and despise anything Japanese. You could bet if the name on the founding code was Xiu Chan Wan the acceptance of bitcoin in china would be very different.

From your writing, I guess you are a Chinese living in the cities? Probably quite well off too. I believe you are applying what you see in the cities to rural areas. You are correct in saying computers and smartphone penetration is around 60% in China and I have no doubt mobile internet covers most parts of China too. However, mobile internet is expensive for rural Chinese relative to their annual income.

I did not plug the 30% figure out of thin air. It is not my imagination. Mobile internet subscription is around 800 million early 2014, total population is around 1.3 billion. You have to take expats, one person owning multiple mobile numbers, and rural businesses into account. Actual Chinese individuals, having mobile internet bitcoin ready devices, out of total population should be less than your estimate. My 30% could not be far off.

I see many of you use China's total population to estimate its influence on bitcoin. I do not think that is wrong, it is just inaccurate. Internet coverage in China is poor, computers are scare in the rural areas. Smartphones and mobile internet is unimaginably expensive for rural income. I believe bitcoin capable devices (computers and mobile phones with internet connectivity) is low, probably less than 30% of population, and out of those 30% only a small minority have the technical literacy to use bitcoin.

The total population can be viewed as a potential influence, but I cannot imagine a high percentage of China's population can learn to use bitcoin in the near future without a major change in China's bitcoin scene. It is arguable that those who are bitcoin literate, have extremely high demand for bitcoin to compensate.

China's population is a factor, it is just inappropriate to gauge influence from the total population statistic.
(You can also read my previous comment #30 on page 2)

As an informed American, I stand in solidarity with the Chinese people, and against the tyrannical Chinese government (and all governments). Don't worry, not all Americans are so ignorant. Some of us know there is a Chinese spirit of liberty crying out to be unchained.

It's not about Chinese vs. American. It's about billionaires vs. the rest of us.

So your govt decides what u'll use ? Are Google, Twitter banned in China ? If not, then why dont u use them ?

Bitcoin does not need China. The Chinese can develop some shitty copycat altcoin, the same way they have developed copycat sites such as Baidu and Weibo. Enough of Chinese hypocrisy. 

我持有7个比特币，准备留给女儿。自己在做期货，三年多了，用程序化交易做，这是我们码农的优势。希望多交流：fviews【at】qq.com

预测个毛毛，你要是预测很准，也不来这里说了

So the Chinese Gov hold monopoly that affect on price until it buy all btc and for 10 or more years sell us for 100x more than current price

LOL, don't listen to stuff you hear at these forums. If anyone is seriously still trading base on rumors in the bitcoin community then you deserve to be panicked out of your "investment". 

According to official sources, the ultimate and final ban(exchanges shutdown...) is about to follow in the next few days.

上一轮暴跌时把莱特换成了比特，不再碰莱特

法币对电的依赖性毕竟还是有限的，简单说如果钱包里有钱就可以花，不需要用电。可是比特币怎么办呢？光这一点就注定了它不可能占主导地位。只要我们还需要用纸币，纸币就会被发行，就存在一个货币中心。所以比特币的理念虽然好，可是它非常的依赖能源，这是一个大问题。没有能源它就等于零。