China delivers double blow to cryptocurrencies

Clampdown hits digital miners who in 2019 used more electricity than Argentina

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China has long taken a negative view of cryptocurrencies amid concerns over potential risks to the domestic financial system. © Reuters

HU YUE and GUO YINGZHE, Caixin

The cryptocurrency universe has been hit by two dollops of bad news this week as authorities in the world's biggest bitcoin mining nation intensified a crackdown on the digital asset.

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