My taught On the Chinese people? It will make cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin illegal. Anyone who uses crypto becomes a criminal. I don't actually think their laws will get rid of crypto. Instead, people who don't like being under the harsh thumb of the CCP will utilize privacy cryptos like Monero. I won't be surprised if new internet and cryptocurrency privacy is developed because of the Chinese. There is now a market of potentially 1 billion people who want internet and monetary secrecy. Even if only 1 percent of the Chinese people want/need privacy crypto and internet that's a market of 10 million users! The CCP has planted the seeds of the rebellion that will throw them out of power and they don't even know it.
There are many misunderstandings regarding the chinese ban of cryptocurrency trading.
The original text from authority is:
(二)虚拟货币相关业务活动属于非法金融活动。开展法定货币与虚拟货币兑换业务、虚拟货币之间的兑换业务、作为中央对手方买卖虚拟货币、为虚拟货币交易提供信息中介和定价服务、代币发行融资以及虚拟货币衍生品交易等虚拟货币相关业务活动涉嫌非法发售代币票券、擅自公开发行证券、非法经营期货业务、非法集资等非法金融活动,一律严格禁止,坚决依法取缔。对于开展相关非法金融活动构成犯罪的,依法追究刑事责任。
It clearly says, the cryptocurrency related exchange business is illegal, means exchanges and centralized dealers are illegal. But it did not say the trading of cryptocurrency is illegal.
Of course it will be difficult to trade without centralized exchanges, but there are still decentralized exchanges and many private person that trades cryptocurrency, those are not illegal unless you trade daily as a business. For example, a chinese family, farther buy 0.1 ETH from his son, who mined ETH using his graphic card, how is that illegal?
And when a foreign dealer trades with chinese people on a foreign platform, even by chinese definition that service is illegal, but in practical a chinese law have no effect to any person/entity that is not in china
So the whole chinese cryptocurrency ban is aimed at centralized chinese exchanges and professional chinese dealers, nothing more. Many western medium misunderstood that, showing that they don't know much about cryptocurrency either