Second, the resulting price collapse allows the government to buy bit coins for cheap. It would be close to impossible that the gov't of the country mining bit coin would not want their share of it.
See, China does this on a regular basis with their own fiat currency. They manipulate it like no one else and make huge money off of it. Trump talked a lot about this in the lead up to the 2016 election.
I've never thought that I could think Trump was right about something, maybe this time Trump was right about China talks.
All China does is spreading fud about something that they can't afford. And create a chaos.
At least with regards about currency manipulation, Trump had it right. People have been saying this about China for decades, that they are devaluing their currency to keep export prices low. It's just that no presidential candidate or president has been this vocal about it.