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It is understood that on the evening of January 29, the official account of bitcoin China Weibo announced that BTCC had been officially acquired by a Hong Kong blockchain investment fund. After the acquisition, BTCC will develop its business in the international market more vigorously, including BTCC mining pool, etc.
Li Qiyuan, founder of BTCC, said:
"Today's acquisition is a milestone for BTCC, and it is also a recognition and return for our achievements in recent years. I am very excited that the introduction of this resource will help BTCC to develop its business more strongly and actively from 2018. '
Previously, BTCC executives had disclosed to all-weather technology the idea that "it's troublesome and unsafe to open an exchange to manage money".
In the past, BTCC focused on the operation of digital asset trading platform, but the company announced that in the future, it will completely shift its business focus to the international market and its three main products - BTCC mining pool 'national pool', Mobi digital asset wallet and US dollar spot trading platform.
BTCC ore pool
According to BTCC, in 2017, the company dug up nearly $900 million worth of bitcoin.
Zhao Qianjie, senior vice president of BTCC mining pool, said the acquisition will enable BTCC to realize the vision of global application of digital assets.
"We now have better resources to realize our vision of maintaining and stabilizing digital assets and blockchain networks. In the future, BTCC mining pool will be committed to providing more fair, transparent and one-stop mining services for global users. '
Mobi digital asset Wallet
BTCC said that Mobi digital asset wallet was officially launched in March 2017 and now has users from 183 countries.
Ma Shiyuan, vice president of BTCC Mobi, said the acquisition will enhance BTCC's global competitiveness.
'Mobi is a global multi currency wallet that we launched in March 2017 and now has users in more than 180 countries. The capital injection we have today is expected to achieve our goal of leading market share in the payment and digital asset industries in various countries as soon as possible. '
US dollar spot trading platform
In 2017, the US dollar spot trading platform created more than US $25 billion in bitcoin trading volume.
Cai Minjie, vice president of BTCC trading platform, said that BTCC will use the experience of its long-standing bitcoin trading platform to provide users with more convenient and secure digital asset services in the future.
BTCC has successfully operated a long-standing and reliable bitcoin trading platform in the past seven years, from which we have gained rich experience, expertise and customer feedback. This acquisition provides us with resources to make more effective use of our experience and expertise to provide users with more convenient digital asset services in the future. '
Although he is engaged in digital asset related transactions, Li Qiyuan is relatively conservative about blockchain technology and other cryptocurrencies. Recently, in an interview with the media, he said that he only recognized the four mainstream digital assets: bitcoin, litecoin, Ethereum and bitcoin cash. He was not interested in the rest and would not recommend others to invest.
In his eyes, blockchain technology is a double-edged sword, which can bring rich benefits and may also be used by some illegal elements to commit fraud.
'it's like you have a steak knife, you can use it to cut steak, but if you're guilty, you can also use it to stab people. Another example is the Internet - you can use email to communicate, but you can also use it to cheat crime. There are two ways to use new technology. The problem is not technology itself, but how people use it. '
However, Li Qiyuan is very optimistic about the future of BTCC:
'I'm excited about a whole new chapter for BTCC in the future - this acquisition will make us successful in 2018 and beyond. We will get new resources, and a new group of experienced and talented executives will join the BTCC team, which will lead us to promote the development of various fields of the digital asset ecosystem, including the business of mining pools, payment channels and trading platforms. '
The regulators strengthen the control of CCT
In September 2017, the people's Bank of China and other seven ministries and commissions issued the announcement on preventing the risks of token issuance and financing, saying that the nature of token issuance and financing is unauthorized illegal public financing, which should be stopped immediately. Any so-called token financing trading platform shall not engage in the exchange business between legal currency and token, and 'virtual currency', and shall not buy or sell tokens or 'virtual currency' as a central counterparty, and shall not provide pricing, information intermediary and other services for tokens or 'virtual currency'.
Subsequently, the three largest bitcoin exchanges in China, i.e. fire coin, okcoin and bitcoin China, announced the closure of floor trading.
On January 23, at the 2018 winter Davos forum, Fang Xinghai, vice chairman of the CSRC, also said that China should strengthen control over the special currency:
One of the most important things for me is that we still need to see the real value of every real institutional industry for the real economic significance. We can see that China's economic aggregate is very large. For China, the transaction of bitcoin is very important. We need to strengthen the control, because it is very frequent now.