The China Central Bank said all crypto transactions are illegal and will work with every way possible to put an end to it. Link to news: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-24/china-deems-all-crypto-related-transactions-illegal-in-crackdown?srnd=cryptocurrencies
Since the announcement today major crypto currency has been dropping with speed in price.
My question here is, is it that the Chinese government has the power to shake the market just with a mare statement
And is it that people don't have faith in crypto knowing that the Chinese government don't have the power to do so?
Technically, it's illegal since it has a value and the government don't get any tax on each transaction for those transaction coming from defi that earns profit from staking. Each country has an specific regarding this and I'm sure that China has a law that really being violates by crypto transaction since they already publish an official statement about this. But this not general, Press just emphasise to create a great story for a better publicity. Actually this kind of issue is already present few years ago and China keeps using that statement whenever cryptocurrency is on hype mode.