Cryptocurrency-related advertisements have stopped appearing on Chinese search engine Baidu and social media platform Weibo, amidst reports of China’s government tightening cryptocurrency and Initial Coin Offering regulations on Sunday, Feb. 4.
The Financial Times of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) was told today, Feb. 4, that China will further increase regulatory pressure on cryptocurrency exchange sites and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), Chinese news site Sina reported.
Seems cryptocurrency will not recover so much in a short time...
This is better than totally banning digital currencies. Restricting the ICO and all investing sites is the right thing to do to ensure that the ICO is not a scam in which it will put their citizens money at risk. This is what of South Korea is doing too right now as they have just dicovered a huge amount was loss during their Iocal exchanges are not yet restricted before but again this is better than totally banning all digital currencies.
That's what I thought at the beginning too, it's an effort from China financial institutions to regulate the system, but there is more than that if I've quit understood.
https://www.coindesk.com/report-china-cutting-access-to-overseas-crypto-trading-websites/ It's not only about ICO, they are also trying to cut the possibility for chinese people to use exchanges overseas, they are trying to avoid capital escapes.
IMO this is just a good buy opporunity
, it's like September once China made a first tightening on ICOs, furthermore there are new technology that allows to avoid this regulation, like OBSF4 and MEEK which are already implemented in privacy coins such as DeepOnion.
At the end of the day they will just slow the process, they can't stop it IMO.