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Binance’s ‘Chinese Twitter’ Gets Blocked for Unknown Violations
15.11.2019
Binance’s Weibo account has been blocked, allegedly due to its WeChat and Alipay fiat gateways
WeChat Pay Using Blockchain to Track Payments, Says Binance CEO
25.10.2019
WeChat Pay is apparently using blockchain technology despite its anti-crypto stance
Tencent Admits Facebook’s Libra Is a Threat to WeChat Pay
24.10.2019
Tencent admits that Libra is a threat to the expansion of its payments services
Binance Launches P2P Trading in China With Support for Alipay and Wechat
11.10.2019
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has launched peer-to-peer trading in China. The platform supports traders making transactions between themselves using the dominant Chinese payment apps Alipay and Wechat Pay. News of the matter forced Alipay to publicly claim it stops transactions if they...
Binance Starts Accepting Fiat Currencies Through Alipay and WeChat
9.10.2019
Binance has begun accepting fiat currencies through online payment service Alipay and mobile messaging and payment app WeChat
Binance Now Accepting Fiat Through Alipay, WeChat
9.10.2019
The move opens the exchange to peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto transactions from China
Crypto Facilitates Money Transfer for Restricted China
14.9.2019
Crypto is not illegal in China, but it is illegal for banks and financial institutions to deal in crypto. It’s also illegal to send or receive over $50,000 in fiat money without government permission. Restrictive banking regulations, international trade wars, and a surveillance state in...
BitTorrent to Begin Alpha Testing Blockchain-Based Streaming Platform
28.8.2019
BitTorrent is beginning internal tests for its blockchain-backed streaming platform
Binance Venus Aims to Outshine Libra and Chinese National Crypto?
21.8.2019
Binance’s Venus stablecoin project aims high, but experts aren’t yet convinced about its potential short-terms success
China Might Permit WeChat To Come Up With Cryptocurrency
14.7.2019
The impending launch of Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency is seemingly having many implications on both economic and political fronts around the globe. Especially this development is seen with utmost interest among the business circles in China and the strained relationship with the US and...
China’s Biggest Payment Firms Have No Plans to Follow Facebook into Crypto
19.6.2019
WeChat parent Tencent and Alibaba's payments arm Ant Financial have no plans to follow Facebook into crypto
Internet Authority: History of Centralized Companies Being Hostile Toward Crypto
17.6.2019
Centralized companies can still adversely impact crypto — the community reacts: “There is a solution to protect ourselves against potential abuse”
Tencent to Overhaul Overseas Strategy after ‘Honour of Kings’ Failure
28.5.2019
Replicating the success that a mobile game enjoys in one market can be tough when the game is offered to a global audience, and that is what Tencent Holding found out with the failure of the mega-hit mobile game ‘Honour of Kings.’ Before making the game available at a global level, the game...
Crypto Pioneer David Chaum: Pseudonymous Messaging With Integrated Payments Is Blockchain’s Killer App
27.5.2019
E-cash inventor David Chaum says he believes the real killer app for blockchain and cryptocurrencies will be privacy-oriented messaging systems integrated with payments
2 Chinese OTC Traders Accused of Illicitly Raising Bitcoin by Promising Interest
22.5.2019
Two Chinese over-the-counter crypto trading chat groups administrators have been accused of illicitly collecting bitcoin for running a loan scheme
Paying the Price: WeChat Merchants Banned From Crypto Payments
16.5.2019
“It is precisely this type of restriction of freedom that will push people to use crypto,” China’s crypto community remains positive despite tightening restrictions
China’s BTC Ban Doubles-Down with WeChat Terminating Accounts Dealing with Crypto Trading
16.5.2019
China’s ban on BTC is not new. The country has been doing so over the past two years now since the infamous incident of local ICO (initial coin offerings) and crypto exchange happened. Since then, the citizens of the country are allowed to hold the crypto but are restricted from trading it. This...
Hodler’s Digest, May 6–12: Top Stories, Price Movements, Quotes and FUD of the Week
12.5.2019
This week in the Hodler’s Digest, Facebook reportedly gathers PayPal staff for its Facebook Coin, and Starbucks gets more into blockchain
WeChat Now Censoring Bitmain and Crypto Price Prediction Accounts
10.9.2018
WeChat has just blocked an official sales channel for Bitmain miners, along with several accounts that analyse the crypto markets