{"id":12889,"date":"2021-06-24T13:30:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T13:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=12889"},"modified":"2021-06-24T13:30:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T13:30:09","slug":"btcchina-the-countrys-first-bitcoin-exchange-gives-up-on-the-cryptocurrency-amid-beijings-tightening-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=12889","title":{"rendered":"BTCChina, the country\u2019s first bitcoin exchange, gives up on the cryptocurrency amid Beijing\u2019s tightening crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostBTCChina, which ran the first bitcoin exchange in China, said the company has exited the bitcoin business amid Beijing\u2019s extensive crackdown on bitcoin mining that has firms across the country trying to distance themselves from the industry.The company said on Thursday that it has \u201ccompletely exited from bitcoin-related businesses\u201d and that it sold its stake in the Singapore-registered bitcoin exchange ZG.com to an unidentified foundation in Dubai in May 2020.BTCChina was founded in 2011 by\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/policy\/article\/3138618\/btcchina-countrys-first-bitcoin-exchange-gives-cryptocurrency-amid?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostBTCChina, which ran the first bitcoin exchange in China, said the company has exited the bitcoin business amid Beijing\u2019s extensive crackdown on bitcoin mining&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12889"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}