China’s crypto crackdown

Alibaba.com will prohibit the sale of virtual currency miners in addition to the prohibition against selling virtual currencies such as Bitcoin, Litecoin, BeaoCoin, QuarkCoin, and Ethereum, which include but are not limited to: 1) Hardware...

Some Chinese cryptocurrency holders remain undeterred even after a further crackdown on their industry roiled markets Friday.

Some crypto holders in China and Hong Kong are scrambling to safeguard their crypto assets, according to an attorney who works with overseas crypto clients.

China's central bank renewed its tough talk on bitcoin, calling all digital currency activities illegal and vowing to crack down on the market.

The U.S. is the second-biggest mining destination on the planet, accounting for nearly 17% of all the world's bitcoin miners.

A cyber yuan stands to give Beijing power to track spending in real time, plus money unlinked to the global financial system dominated by the dollar. It also could soften the bite of U.S. sanctions.

Over $50 billion of cryptocurrency moved from China-based digital wallets to other parts of the world in the last year, pointing to possibilities that Chinese investors are transferring more money than they are allowed to out of the country...

China’s central bank has introduced a homegrown digital currency across four cities as part of a pilot program, marking a milestone on the path toward the first electronic payment system by a major central bank.

As global central banks grapple with Facebook’s plans to create a cryptocurrency similar to bitcoin but backed with traditional currency, sources say China is taking a big lead with plans to disperse its own state-backed cryptocurrency to...

Chinese authorities are ordering domestic bitcoin exchanges to shut down, delivering a heavy blow to once-thriving trading hubs that helped popularize the virtual currency pushing it to recent record highs.

Bitcoin exchanges in China are trying to maneuver around tight central-bank rules, even as the virtual currency faces a new challenge now that Alibaba's online shopping site has banned the sale of bitcoin and related items.

Bitcoin prices tumbled almost 13% after an affiliate of China's biggest Internet search company stopped accepting payment in the virtual currency.

In the latest blow to online gamers in China, Beijing has prohibited the use of virtual money to buy real world goods.