China has banned its financial institutions from handling Bitcoin transactions after surging demand from Chinese investors helped drive the value of the virtual currency up 5,000 per cent this year.
Beijing stopped short of outlawing Bitcoin and said individuals were free to buy and sell it at their risk, but it highlighted what it said were the dangers, such as money-laundering.
The country accounts for about a third of Bitcoin transactions and BTCChina became the biggest Bitcoin exchange by trading volume last month.
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