Friday, September 15, 2017

Chinese government sources tell the WSJ they're about to shut down all domestic Bitcoin exchanges

Cory Doctorow · Tuesday, September 12, 2017, 1:24 pm

China's "economic miracle" has been accompanied by mass-scale looting, creating a class of super-rich, corrupt millionaires and billionaires to rival the US or Russia; these 1%ers know that their wealth is subject to the whims of the Politburo, which is why they are so anxious to acquire second passports, and to exfiltrate their cash through baroque schemes, anodyne scams, and runaway property speculation.

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