Bitcoin drops $2,000 in value as South Korea announces planned trading ban
The value of bitcoin plunged 13.5% in the early hours of Thursday after news hit that South Korea is planning to ban cryptocurrency trading.
News of the ban follows the raiding of local cryptocurrency exchanges by police and tax authorities over alleged tax evasion, as one of the key nations driving the demand for bitcoin and other virtual currencies attempts a clampdown.
“There are great concerns regarding virtual currencies and the justice ministry is basically preparing a bill to ban cryptocurrency trading through exchanges,” justice minister Park Sang-ki said.
It would have been better if you had provided the link to the source of the news so for follow up reading and person that post after you would not have said that if he had seen and verified the source to know whether to rely on it or not. I saw the price take a reverse turn but I am not panicked because I know at one point, the answer as to why that happen will pop up and this is one of the answers.
When news like this broke, its normal for price to fall as even price has been falling from the all time high of close to $20000 that we witnessed close to the end of last year to the present moment how much more when there is a major threat for everyone to react to. But the issue is that, I don't expect this to last long and its because there is precedence to rely upon. When the Chinese government announced her plan to regulate the way things are done,price crashed but we bounced back even stronger and at the time, the stake the Chinese controls was very much higher than what South Korea can control.