BEIJING: A Chinese Bitcoin exchange platform announced on Wednesday that it had stopped taking Chinese yuan deposits, sending the price of the virtual currency down sharply as China broadened its crackdown on domestic Bitcoin trading.
Shanghai-based BTC China, the world's largest Bitcoin exchange by volume, posted a notice about the new regulations on its website, two weeks after Beijing banned financial institutions from trading in Bitcoin due to the risks involved.
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