{"id":229369,"date":"2017-09-15T15:45:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T13:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=229369"},"modified":"2017-09-15T15:46:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T13:46:56","slug":"cryptocurrency-exchanges-in-china-ordered-to-close-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/229369-cryptocurrency-exchanges-in-china-ordered-to-close-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Cryptocurrency exchanges in China ordered to close &#8211; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in China have ordered cryptocurrency exchanges in the country to halt trading, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-bitcoin-china\/beijing-cryptocurrency-exchanges-told-to-announce-trading-halt-source-idUSKCN1BQ07P\">reported Reuters<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All trading exchanges must by midnight of 15 September publish a notice to make clear when they will stop all cryptocurrency trading and announce a stop to new user registrations,&#8221; stated a government notice.<\/p>\n<p>The notice said trading platforms should tell the government by 20 September\u00a0how they will handle funds to ensure investors&#8217; interests are protected.<\/p>\n<p>News of the crackdown on cryptocurrency trading follows <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/229211-btcchina-exchange-to-stop-trading-on-30-september.html\">BTCChina\u00a0shutting down<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in the country &#8211; effective from the end of September.<\/p>\n<p>Smaller Chinese exchanges ViaBTC, YoBTC, and Yunbi followed suit, while larger competitors like OkCoin and Huobi have remained silent.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/228713-crypto-mining-botnets-have-returned.html\">Crypto-mining botnets have returned<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in China have reportedly ordered cryptocurrency exchanges in the country to halt trading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":224650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44696],"tags":[46057,43378],"class_list":["post-229369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-btcchina","tag-cryptocurrencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229375,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229369\/revisions\/229375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}