The recent news and rumors of new are all testifying to the fact of how powerful can China be in almost aspects of global play
here is a thought:
all these rumors, news and FUD are in English not in Chinese. in reality it is the English news sites that are making a false translation of the reality and spread it among us.
so who is to blame here really? those who are telling us "China banned bitcoin"? or the Chinese who are only regulating exchanges and banning scammy ICOs?
or perhaps those weak hands who never understood what bitcoin really is, (a decentralized peer to peer cash) and fear on the most irrelevant news?!
Interesting perspective!!
Having lived and doing business in China for over 10 years, this just looks like another long term strategy China is playing!
Banning ICOs is definitely a good move, because they have to control scammers or at least the ones the government does not approve of!
They probably know the price of BTC will dip because in general the mainlanders are easily panicked, taking the china stock collapse for example...
Now the Chinese government have probably been scooping up the cheap BTC on their own local exchanges and strengthen their control over BTC prices at least in their local exchanges then find ways to influence foreign exchanges using the BTCs they scooped up these couple of days...
Evil yet smart....