Appears related to this, per btc-e trollbox:
MarketQ PBOC to create a special banking unit for the funding of bitcoin exchanges
MarketQ China Exchange moving oversees
MarketQ Chinese offshore Yuan available for trading... if you were wondering why its rising, Chinese offshore Yuan available for trading, thats why.
This is why.
Think about it.
On Apr. 24th, after some very acute sleazy frontrunning manipulation that fooled me & many others big time, news broke out that the PBoC would -not- tolerate any more of these evasive tactics & rules loopholes the chinese exchanges had taken advantage of to keep their operations going pretty much as they had been since last year.
In classic asian state doctrinarian fashion they sternly admonished everyone involved, warning that they
definitely had to stop any & all deposit -&- withdrawal methods using renminbi, whether with 'deposit voucher' systems, ATM's, banks or payment processors.
This dropped the price rather fast from 500's to a range of 420-465 that would last weeks, reminiscent of the 8-10 day early Apr. period. During this time the Western (mostly) good news kept pouring in steadily as always yet instead of propping the price up, this instead merely kept the morass of doom sentiment pervading China from crashing us all the way back to 400 & beyond. A couple further banks closed more accounts w/ chinese exchanges, while the Beijing 2014 Expo got censored by the PBoC.
Because of all this I posted some pics back then about Huobi/OKC guys getting arrested. That's why I & many others thought things would get worse. I mean, if you researched their profiles, they seemed to be so 'maverick' and rebellious-minded, those founders. Ready to handle things as to end up being 'hailed as martyrs for their cause'. Sounded like that's what was in store.
..But that was ONE possible outcome. It didn't have to happen this way. The
opposite of further alienation & repression could always occur. And the exchange owners knew precisely how. We didn't think of this because we aren't familiar w/ this very distinct cultural asian mindset. All they had to do, was to appease the PBoC, who, like all oppressive state agencies, are absolutely starved for public recognition/support. You don't bribe them with money ; the majority of them, even as individuals, aren't susceptible to it. You give them raw political & cultural power, through making them look legitimate, validating their regime & decisions as 'wise and for the good of the people'.
And that's exactly what that group of 5 exchange owners focused on feverishly, mostly behind the scenes, for weeks on end. While negotiating w/ the central bank & related agencies, pleading with them that they understood & approved of their decisions, and were desperate to do anything needed to find a way to work with them, make their operations acceptable in the officials' eyes ; They released the famous statement that they would not show up at Beijing 2014, and would close down all leveraged trading shortly.
..And it all turned out a massive success. As the the current price explosion has shown since May 19th, the results of these appeasement efforts dangled before the PBoC's eyes an irresistible opportunity to gain massive popular support (among tech geeks & finance types at least ;p), by virtually doing a 180" on their earlier policies - establish a state-endorsed, 'special banking unit' that would oversee & regulate cryptocurrencies there using Chinese Offshore Yuan for trading, w/ the exchanges eventually to move offshore in officially supported fashion.
This raised the prices precisely back to the 500's level we had been at -before- PBoC released their stern warnings about reg. evasion.. Around which, the overall longer-term momentum from the run-up since $340 kept the enthusiasm bullish enough to buoy things way out of the 500's-540's range, up to where we are at today ; With likely more to come still, because, this is Chinese officials being in tacit crypto SUPPORT instead of opposition.. It changes -everything- quite like how apprehensive people were, during all of 2012-2013 & especially in the wake of the SR crash, about the US Gov just pulling a LibertyReserve on bitcoin & shutting down / criminalizing everything they can, ..until the infamous Monday, Nov. 18 Congress report that truly put the bull in the chinese' pants as all those fears of US antagonism got suddenly relieved.
So do you understand now..?
THAT. is. why. all. this. happened.. !!