Maybe because their share in cryptocurrency is just 10 - 15 %... IF you remove them, that percentage can easily be patched-up. So come to think of it. Every moment, more and more countries are adopting the cryptocurrency because it is the trend nowadays... It is just like social media... When social media was introduced, mixed emotions were felt, some were excited, some were afraid because of the "PRIVACY" thing. Now that many people/countries are accepting or using it... CHINA will eventually succumb to the trend. I bet not for long, they will start to use this currency again....
But it is not as simple, governments love social media since people expose their complete lives there and governments can keep track of their citizens that way, bitcoin is the complete opposite of social media, bitcoin allows someone to hide their income in plain sight without the possibility of freezing or confiscating that money and that is going to drive governments crazy and some may even ban bitcoin because of it.
Hmm... Bro, this your line of thought got me thinking -"
bitcoin allows someone to hide their income in plain sight without the possibility of freezing or confiscating that money and that is going to drive governments crazy and some may even ban bitcoin because of it."
This is exactly true. When government realizes that some crooks in illegal business or politicians starch money in bitcoin, they might go after them, thus leading to a debacle in bitcoin. This could lead the government to start looking for means to stop the looting and this could affect bitcoin. You could be "hearing "a death penalty for operating a bitcoin / icos account .
As far as privacy of property is considered then monero does way better job in hiding trails than bitcoin. That is why monero is so popular in high-privacy circuit. Primary focus of bitcoin was not the privacy but making currency concept powerful. Tracking bitcoin transaction is indeed a tedious process.
Coming back to China influence issue, chinese effect on bitcoin market has been rendered to less significant. Proof -> China has banned trading of bitcoin since last year and more effectively february this year. See the price trend since that time. Not much of effect. In fact countries like Japan have accepted the bitcoin and other countries are also following the trend.
Thus those days are back when china was the force to reckon with in the bitcoin market.
New powerhouses have been established and major financial players are entering in the lucrative market called bitcoin.