1 At the beginning of the year, the central bank's operation management department has inspected the two major bitcoin trading platforms in Huobi.com and Bixing.com. ..
According to the announcement, on the afternoon of February 8, the inspection team of the Business Management Department of the People's Bank of China conducted another investigation on nine other bitcoin trading institutions, including China Bitcoin, Bitcoin Trading Network, Good Bitcoin, Yunbi.com, Yuanbao.com, BTC 100, Jubi.com, Bibei.com and Dahuhong.
It is understood that relevant parties have reported the problems existing in the current bitcoin trading platform, prompted the possible legal risks, policy risks and technical risks of the trading platform, and learned about the operation of nine trading platforms.
This time, the relevant parties put forward clear requirements for the platform: it is not allowed to engage in financial business such as financing and currency melting in violation of regulations, not to participate in money laundering activities, not to violate national financial laws and regulations such as anti-money laundering, foreign exchange management, payment and settlement, and not to violate national taxation and industrial and commercial advertising management. Also remind the general public not to be easily deceived.
"If a bitcoin trading platform is found to violate the above requirements and the circumstances are serious, the inspection team will ask the relevant departments to shut down and ban it according to law." The announcement said.
In addition, according to relevant reports, since the on-site inspection by the inspection team of the central bank in June 5438+1early October this year, many well-known platforms have successively closed the leverage function of "financing and melting coins". At the same time, the previously active bitcoin financial management has also begun to be removed.
Since1noon on October 24th 12, Bitcoin has officially entered the charging era. 65438+1On the evening of October 22nd, three domestic bitcoin trading platforms, Huobi.com, Bixing.com and btc China, issued notices in their respective official website, announcing that they would start collecting transaction service fees at noon on October 24th of 12/kloc-0, and the transaction service fees would be charged at a fixed rate of 0.2% of the turnover. Among them are fire coins. Com and the currency bank also said that RMB is charged for selling and bitcoin or Litecoin is charged for buying. The purpose is to further curb speculation and prevent large price fluctuations.
Lin Zhipeng, co-founder of ROCKMINER, told Beijing Youth Daily that from his personal experience, the central bank would draw a conclusion this time. Other restrictions are hard to say. "In theory, it should be fined." And said that "punishment will not hurt major platforms, and it is even more impossible to ban transactions."