China mines more bitcoin than anywhere else. The government wants that to stop
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China has extended its iron-fisted crackdown on using and trading bitcoin to the industry that oversees the mining of new cryptocurrency tokens.
The new steps from Beijing were unveiled late on Friday. They roiled crypto markets over the weekend and pushed crypto miners to suspend some business in China, creating uncertainty about a critical step in the process needed to put more of these coins in circulation. Chinese Vice Premier Liu He told a group of finance officials on Friday that the government would "clamp down on bitcoin mining and trading activity" as part of its goal to achieve financial stability. The government didn't elaborate on specific policies targeting mining or trading.Over and over at a confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Democratic senators confronted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about controversial comments they said he had made in the past. And over and over, President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of health and human services either denied having said those things or said he wasn’t sure he had said them.
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